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Brian Ivory
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A Canadian friend of mine knowing my music taste loaned me two albums by an artist called Ryan Adams in the mid 00''S, I kept hearing the name from various magazines like Q, Mojo NME etc but actually hadn't heard much of the music.
The mentioned albums
Love Is Hell (told it sounded like The Smiths, it does but more on that later) Heartbreaker (it sounds like Dylan/Neil Young he said, again it does)
It sounded a bit too much like Mr Dylan and Young to these ears actually at first and made me concentrate on Love Is Hell for a few weeks.
Until slowly I came back to this album and the songs began to reveal themselves, what I thought was the wearing an influence a bit too openly at first turned out to be a man actually cut from the same cloth as those writers and actually a prodigiously talented writer and story teller.
Songs that sounded almost bare bones at first and could do with some extra Elec guitar accompaniment little extra piano or percussion all turned out to actually have just the right amount as if anymore would just distract from what was going on and been told to us in what sound like at times as late night confessionals, ones strummed and picked quietly by a friend at the back of a bar before taking to the stage to play the actual main gig with the band (Gold the follow up perhaps was this?)
Listen to My Sweet Carolina,In My Time Of Need for mind blowing examples.
Elsewhere Come Pick Me Up, To Be Young and My Winding Wheel show more full on arrangements but are no less brilliant for it.
Turns out that Canadian friend was right.............
This was the start of a brilliant Singer/Songwriters solo career that twenty odd years later many say is equal to the talents of Dylan and Mr.Young myself included.
Dr.BMR
The mentioned albums
Love Is Hell (told it sounded like The Smiths, it does but more on that later) Heartbreaker (it sounds like Dylan/Neil Young he said, again it does)
It sounded a bit too much like Mr Dylan and Young to these ears actually at first and made me concentrate on Love Is Hell for a few weeks.
Until slowly I came back to this album and the songs began to reveal themselves, what I thought was the wearing an influence a bit too openly at first turned out to be a man actually cut from the same cloth as those writers and actually a prodigiously talented writer and story teller.
Songs that sounded almost bare bones at first and could do with some extra Elec guitar accompaniment little extra piano or percussion all turned out to actually have just the right amount as if anymore would just distract from what was going on and been told to us in what sound like at times as late night confessionals, ones strummed and picked quietly by a friend at the back of a bar before taking to the stage to play the actual main gig with the band (Gold the follow up perhaps was this?)
Listen to My Sweet Carolina,In My Time Of Need for mind blowing examples.
Elsewhere Come Pick Me Up, To Be Young and My Winding Wheel show more full on arrangements but are no less brilliant for it.
Turns out that Canadian friend was right.............
This was the start of a brilliant Singer/Songwriters solo career that twenty odd years later many say is equal to the talents of Dylan and Mr.Young myself included.
Dr.BMR
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