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Hill of Beans - Ralph McTell Sept 20, 2019 9:18:29 GMT leoroberts and earthbalm like this

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Post by ocarolan on Sept 20, 2019 9:18:29 GMT

..released today - should be arriving shortly. However, have had a listen on Spotify earlier.

Tony Visconti worked on this CD with RMcT so I was expecting lots of (over-?) arranging and, sadly, wasn't disappointed. There are a few songs where it's just/mostly Ralph and guitar,which, having heard most of the songs live in this way, I much prefer. However, the songs shine through as always, and the arrangements are perhaps less overpowering than on Ralph's first LP Eight Frames a Second which I bought somewhere around 1968 or 69.

Looking forward to listening more carefully when my CD arrives and may well report back then.

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Hill of Beans - Ralph McTell Sept 21, 2019 11:49:41 GMT earthbalm likes this

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Post by andyhowell on Sept 21, 2019 11:49:41 GMT

I bought it yesterday and I love it, though there's not much about Ralph that I don't like!

It sounds very similar to the last album but with more real strings and so on.

I've heard some of the stand out tracks live but there seems to be a lot of new stuff that is being heard of the first time. The Brighton Belle, Gammel Dansk, When They Were Young and Sometimes I Wish i could Pray are standouts. West 4th Street and Jones is a modern classic (inspired by on the cover of Freewheeling Bob Dylan).

Not that much guitar on this one but sme fine songwriting.

Apparently, Ralph and Tony Visconti bumped into each other on the Marylebone Road a few years ago, Visconti then found himself in a record store in New York and found a copy of Not 'Till Tomorrow realised he good it was and the relationship was reborn!

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