Paul Gill
19/06/06 17:14
At long last I have got my hands on a recording ('On
Every Street Corner') by folk artist, Paul Gill. Not
easy to come by at all. The man is a brilliant
politico singer-songwriter, guitarist, whistler and
concertinarista - it's criminal that he's not up
there playing with the likes of Billy Bragg. But like
his fictional outlaw in 'The Ballad of Bill Posters',
Paul is hard to track down - you won't find him on
the web, on Myspace or Blogspot - perhaps in a
Suffolk folk club, or lying down in front of the
bulldozers at a road-protest near you.
But take it from me, he's superb. His 'Hard as Nails', a true story of the horrors and hardships of homelessness, deserves to become a classic; as does his skillfully crafted 'Guilty as Charged', listing the reasons why he holds the powers that be in such contempt. It's not just his playing or his lyrics - his singing his superb, a rich sonorous voice with a crafted folk-lilt that never once strays into pastiche finger-in-the-ear territory.
Don't ask me where you can buy a copy. Go out and demand one. Harangue shops and folk zines - we want Paul Gill!
But take it from me, he's superb. His 'Hard as Nails', a true story of the horrors and hardships of homelessness, deserves to become a classic; as does his skillfully crafted 'Guilty as Charged', listing the reasons why he holds the powers that be in such contempt. It's not just his playing or his lyrics - his singing his superb, a rich sonorous voice with a crafted folk-lilt that never once strays into pastiche finger-in-the-ear territory.
Don't ask me where you can buy a copy. Go out and demand one. Harangue shops and folk zines - we want Paul Gill!
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