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REVIEW FROM www.livingtradition.co.uk
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ROBB JOHNSON - A Beginner’s Guide |
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“Most of the gigs I do are just me and the acoustic guitar. Afterwards people often ask ‘Which CD sounds most like what you did tonight?’ It’s this one.” That more or less sets out Johnson’s stall as the dissenting, thorn-in-side of the pompous, the selfish, the greedy, the agressive and all things unjust in our world approaches his er, middle years. He’s not going quietly either as you can imagine. ‘A Beginners Guide’ is a first-take, Saturday-morning-and-then-off-for-a-pint revisiting of some old songs plus one or two new to disc. These vary from a return to ‘Small Revolutions’ originally aired when Pip Collings made up their duo and a celebration of the 1979 Marxist Sandinista victory in Nicaragua to ‘Everything’s All Right’ - a swipe at the on-going Bush wars and not without a hint of cynicism spat out with a sneer. |
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