Ben Morgan-Brown – Nameless Gold EP
Ben Morgan-Brown - Nameless Gold
Release Date: Out Now
I’ve fallen a little bit in love
with this new EP from Exeter based singer-songwriter Ben Morgan-Brown but I
think it’s time to share with you lot now. The ‘Nameless Gold’ EP opens with
the title track and the rippling, mournful acoustic notes immediately make your
muscles relax and the world stops turning quite so furiously. Morgan-Brown’s
voice is similarly soothing as he weaves his story of paternal loss and love found
without reaching beyond his confessional early morning style. ‘Ten Years
Passing’ picks the pace up and the jaunty guitar picking is infectious along
with a different, Appalachian style singing lines like “left the big smoke,
moved down next to the sea, listening to folk selling fudge and ice cream”.
‘Let A Sleeping Dog Lie Pts
1&2’ is an instrumental piece that starts with a lazily meandering acoustic
line which takes a dark turn at the half-way point and becomes a master class
in finger picking that is impossible not to be impressed by. This collection
closes out with ‘Only So Young’, a song that brings to my mind one of my most
missed artists Chris Aliano/Avert Francis. Morgan-Brown has such a beautifully
gentle style that you just want to pull up a chair, let a single malt roll
around a glass and absorb every softly sung word and every precisely plucked
string. Simple. Stunning. Simply stunning.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/benmorganbrown/
Live Dates:
28th May – On the Waterfront, Exeter
2nd June – Cary Arms, Torquay
7th June – Tally Ho, Littlehempston
15th June – Petherton Folk Day, South Petherton
16th June – The Cary Arms, Torquay
22nd June – Venezia, Exeter
29th June – Live at Thornsett Road, London
30th June – Green Note Basement Bar, London
10th July – Lusty Glaze, Newquay
11th July – The Chain Locker, Falmouth
14th July – The Cary Arms, Torquay
27th July – Bridport Folk Festival, Bridport
2nd August – Rockets & Rascals, Plymouth
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