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Concrete Prairie
Description
His subject matter reflects his own, often pained experiences growing up in a single-parent family, with his mother losing her life to alcoholism "so I'm acutely aware of how fragile the whole thing isand then embracing it from there". So the sturdy Bury My Blues, which deals with mental health issues, starts as an acoustic ballad before developing into a stomping, fiddle-backed celebration of life. Wine On My Mind is influenced by the problems that faced his mother, and all other addicts "and just jumping into their shoes for a song. Thinking about how it must feel for them". And that, says bandmate Adam, is a key part of his technique "because it's easy to write a song about the devastating impact of these sort of things, but it's a lot harder to take another person's point of view, taking it from their side and how they must be feeling". Adam-penned Winter Town fits the mood perfectly with its atmospheric story of an out-of-season English resort, depression and suicide.
Concrete Prairie are Joe Faulkner, lead singer, guitarist and harmonica player, second songwriter Adam Greeves on vocals , guitar, mandolin and harmonica, and Dan Burrows, who adds harmonies, and plays bass and banjo. Then there's Georgia Browne on fiddle and Tom Hartley on drums. And why are they called Concrete Prairie? "It's English but with the influence of Americana. The brutalism of a city combined with the image of a prairie..."
Tracks
- Name
- Picking Up Pieces
- I Wish You Well
- Bury My Blues
- Hard Times
- Day By Day
- People Forget
- Time to Kill
- Wine On My Mind
- Winter Town
- The Devil Dealt The Deck
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