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WILLY MASON - If The Ocean Gets Rough
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| You get the feeling that Willy Mason came along a bit too early to be fully appreciated. If that meant avoiding the identikit acoustic troubadour tag that covers a host of today's Paolo's, Morrison's, Johnson's or those much-loathed Blunt beasts, then you get the feeling he and we should breathe a sigh of relief....full text |
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| Given his prodigious talent, it’s fitting that the teenage Mason was discovered on local radio by Conor Oberst. Like the Bright Eyes wunderkind – who quickly signed him to his own Team Love label in the US – the Massachusetts songsmith seemed ripe beyond his years. Coming on like a dusty old bluesman with a carpetbag of tricks, it was hard to believe that Mason’s 2004 debut, Where The Humans Eat, was the work of a 19-year-old from an isolated enclave of Martha’s Vineyard....full text |
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| Times Online |
| For his second album the young Massachu-setts singer-song-writer has acquired a full band to replace his put-upon brother. Mason’s nasal voice, as lived in as Evan Dando’s, is hugely appealing, probably more so than the likeable if vague songs, such as We Can Be Strong and Riptide , full of foiled escape and forced travel metaphors. The excellent Save Myself strikes an explicitly political note, while When The River Moves On is bluesy Yankee gospel....full text |
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