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1-2 Weeks
01. RICHARD DAWSON - Juniper Berries Float Down the Stream
02. RICHARD DAWSON - Black Dog in the Sky
03. RICHARD DAWSON - Wooden Bag
04. RICHARD DAWSON - The Bamburgh Beast
05. RICHARD DAWSON - Grandad's Deathbed Hallucinations
06. RICHARD DAWSON - Cumberland Rag
07. RICHARD DAWSON - We Picked Apples in a Graveyard Freshly Mowed
08. RICHARD DAWSON - Newcastle
09. RICHARD DAWSON - Man Has Been Struck Down By Hands Unseen
10. RICHARD DAWSON - The Magic Bridge
ARTIST
TITLE
The Magic Bridge
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
PTCD 003CD PTCD 003CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
4/23/2013

Richard Dawson has been a much-loved musical spectacle in his native Newcastle for many years now, a skewed troubadour who sings and plays guitar with a rare intensity and a very singular style. Beguiled northern audiences have long awaited the arrival of recordings that capture Dawson's genius, and it has finally arrived with his album The Magic Bridge, a 10-song collection out on CD (Pink Triangle) and double 12" vinyl (Box Records). Dawson's music is a collision of opposites -- his hoarsely cracking voice suddenly rising to a magical soar that's been compared to Tim Buckley, John Martyn, and Richard Youngs, while his battered acoustic guitar veers from stumble to sublime in a way that can recall Sir Richard Bishop or Captain Beefheart. The listener is drawn in carefully but irresistibly from the instrumental opener "Juniper Berries Float Down the Stream," which creeps in falteringly but grows and envelops before you realize it's happened and you're gripped. By track two and the arrival of his skyward voice (not to mention its beautifully tender conclusion) and Dawson has you under his spell.