Richard Dawson
The Glass Trunk
2012 saw another stylistic veer with the creation of 'The Glass Trunk' Triggered by a commission to respond to the local museum service's archives Dawson created an album largely from stories found in an old 17th Century scrapbook including a lengthy paean to the sorry demise of community pillar Joe The Quiltmaker and the muchloved yet equally viscerally dark Poor Old Horse 6 acapella odes of between 4 and 13 minutes in length plus a rendering of Mike Waterson's The Brisk Lad intersperse with a series of brief instrumental vignettes Dawson's guitar sparring with the electric harp of Rhodri Davies for strictly spontaneous 60second blast 2LP double 180 Gram Vinyl With Download