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Review: 'BRADSHAW, BOB'
'The Ghost Light'   

-  Label: 'Fluke Records'
-  Genre: 'Alt/Country' -  Release Date: '30th April 2021'-  Catalogue No: 'FR11'

Our Rating:
When theatres go dark, the ghost light is a single bulb that’s left burning to appease the spirits of the absent performers. The eleven songs on Bob Bradshaw’s latest album were written in quarantine but aside from the metaphor of the title, he makes no overt reference to the post Covid world.

Bradshaw is a conventional storyteller who creates worlds rather than bares his soul. He prefers to muse in an abstract manner on heartbreak and regret, memory and nostalgia, loneliness and liberation.

He says: “I want to tell stories with room for exploration and interpretation. I want people to bring themselves into the songs as much as possible.”   I’m not about to confess anything, in other words.

He worked both in person with his core electric band (guitarists Andrew Stern and Andy Santospago, bassist Ed Lucie, and drummer Mike Connors), and remotely with hired hands like drummer/producer Dave Brophy, bassist/engineer Dave Westner and bassist Zachariah Hickman.

He rocks on 21st Century Blues , waltzes on Come Back Baby and tangos on Sideways . It’s all done with a quiet Irish charm (Bradshaw was born in Cork) but reflects the Americana influences of his adopted stateside home.

Bob Bradshaw’s website
  author: Martin Raybould

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BRADSHAW, BOB - The Ghost Light