Richard Dawson The Glass Trunk Vinyl LP Reissue 2015

Tracklist:

1. A Parent's Address to His Firstborn Son on the Day of His Birth
2. I
3. II
4. Poor Old Horse
5. III
6. Iv
7. William and His Mother Visit the Museum
8. V
9. Vi
10. The Brisk Lad
11. Vii
12. Viii
13. Joe the Quilt-maker
14. Ix
15. X
16. The Ghost of a Tree
17. Xi
18. Xii
19. The Ice-breaker Baikal

"The Glass Trunk is a mesmerising and pungent selection of seven eerily keened faux folk songs forced into form from scrapbook scraps and forgotten family papers. Penetrating the heart of the archive's hidden stories, Dawson draws out hidden truths in strong bold strokes".

- Stewart Lee, Sunday Times

A much-loved musical spectacle in his native Newcastle for many years now, Richard Dawson is a skewed troubadour who sings and plays guitar with a rare intensity and singular style. Richard has taken inspiration from photographs, letters, newspapers and illustrations from Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collections to create The Glass Trunk. Comprised of seven startling unaccompanied songs delivered with a peculiar intensity and off-kilter virtuosity, each interspersed with a couplet of electrified acoustic guitar and pedal-harp (played by the legendary Rhodri Davies), the album is a devastating, wholly idiosyncratic meditation on death and life, violence and love, memory and fog - a rousing Northumbrian song-painting like nothing else you will hear.