Friday, August 02, 2013


Tess Of The CircleThorns (Vintage Voice Records).



Tess is Tess Jones and an impressive circle of musicians brought in to perform his songs. Thorns is produced by BRIT award winner, Chris Potter. However, the album has missed its time or is a resurrection vanguard. To explain; songs like History and Eyes Of A Clown could be seen as old fashioned and certainly not Nu-Folk. Al Stewart, early Chris De Burgh and Gordon Giltrap are brought to mind with Say What You Want (Run) and Girl In The Window the best of the bunch. Vagabonds And Rogues and No Place Like Home could easily fit into a musical. It’s a mixed bag and Tess will divide opinion.

David Blue

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