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“Despite the eclectically wonderful and adventurously weird places folk finds itself in the twenty-first century, there are still times when an album shines simply by letting the songs stand for themselves. Gavin Davenport will be familiar to many…but anyone who’d witnessed his powerful Yorkshire-bred tenor silence a session at Sidmouth FolkWeek will know how eagerly awaited Brief Lives, his first solo album, has been.
With rarely more than a boldly strummed guitar or rousing concertina for accompaniment, the sincerity and simplicity with which Gavin delivers narrative-rich songs such as ‘Two Pretty Boys’, ‘Jolly Bold Robber’ and ‘Young Hastings’ brings to mind those cherished albums put out by Bill Leader in the 1970s. In particular we’re reminded of the late Tony Rose and the early recordings of Pete Coe; men strong in voice and clear in vision.
… the effect is of a captivating one-to-one storytelling [and creates] in Brief Lives an album that, like those aforementioned past masters, is destined to become a fresh source for singers in years to come.”
Tim Chipping, English Dance and Song
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