Having recently read Stewart Home’s most recent novel, ‘The 9 Lives of Ray The Cat Jones’, a fictionalised biography an aspiring boxer with a promising career ahead of him, and who instead made a career as a notorious cat burglar and prison escapee, I was interested to note that Hertfordshire based River Child hung up his gloves in favour of a guitar. Chances are that being a singer-songwriter won’t be nearly as lucrative as liberating property from the wealthy (Ray Jones entertained notions of being a latter day Robin Hood, lifting jewels from Sophia Lauren and Elizabeth Taylor), but at least he’s not likely to get his collar felt (unless he tries his luck busking in Camden without a licence).
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His is an easygoing, homespun indie-folk style; the bittersweet country stylings of ‘Start Over Again’ is both classic and vintage in hue, and if the song structures and chord sequences are simple, they’re also effective. There’s something of an Oasis-like swagger to his delivery, but it’s not mere bravado. River Child evidently has a good ear for a melody and knows how to carve a hook.
River Child Online
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