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Ik kreeg direct een Land-van-Maas-en-Waal flashback.

Imagine a group of minstrels dancing and playing their way across the countryside, add some rock riffs and keen Hammond organ and you have Joshua Burnell and his band. And this seems to encapsulate this latest album, The Road to Horn Fair. Joshua may be better known to audiences of live performances and you can hear that his music will go down well with the old tour T-shirts, the floppy hats and the artisan cider. It’s folk, it’s rock and it’s fun.

Well, actually its more than just folk-rock. It is a collection of variations of folk-rock themes. There is close-harmony singing in the opening track, Pastime with Good Company, yet another song attributed to Henry VIII, but come the third verse a bass line straight out of seventies pre-metal bounces in and we suddenly know where all this is going. Before we stop for breath it leaps straight into Berkshire Tragedy, a once delicate song driven at such a pace and with a  mix of time signatures that as the liner notes point out, pretty impossible to dance to – so you might need that second bottle of apple juice to work it out.

Tracks:
1. Pastime with Good Company (1:25)
2. Berkshire Tragedy (4:34)
3. Cold Haily Windy Night (3:48)
4. Plane Tree & Tenpenny Bit (3:49)
5. Ah! Robin, Gentyl Robin (3:35)
6. The Knight & the Shepherdess (4:59)
7. Drowsy Maggie & Rakish Paddy (3:16)
8. Raggle Taggle Gypsies (3:28)
9. Horn Fair (4:11)
10. Cam Ye O'er Frae France & the Musical Priest (4:13)

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FINYZIMpalc