Chris Bradley is a musician from Edinburgh; he lives right down the street from a reader of this blog, Shongah, as I’m told. It’s always nice to have a personal connection to music and to know that someone out there knows someone who [...]]]> Golden Girl mp3 At The Outpost Chris Bradley …. buy it

Chris Bradley is a musician from Edinburgh; he lives right down the street from a reader of this blog, Shongah, as I’m told. It’s always nice to have a personal connection to music and to know that someone out there knows someone who knows someone …. Anyway, Chris Bradley’s album At The Outpost, is an easy-going affair. His voice croons and coos and slides through the melodies without seeming to care if they will ever end. His guitar steadily keeps pace, jutting out for short bursts of solo notes when it wishes, showing off only ever so slightly. His piano gives off little trills whenever his voice trails off. It rumbles in the buildup and jingles when his voice goes high and light. Each song differs from the rest enough to show the talent of this young man. There’s a nice bluesy sound to much of this but not too much so as to pigeon hole Chris Bradley into being a blues singer, afterall he is Scottish. But yes, I hear a bit of John Martyn in him and that is to say I hear the influence, not the parroting of the great man in this music. It’s quite nice to see a song like “Bored Little Rosie” come out of a music scene like Edinburgh, a song that is such a call back to 70s style blues-rock. I listened to this album quite a lot a few months ago and then left it for all this time. This morning as I have it on again it feels like I’m seeing an old friend again, and gladly! As singer-songwriters go, Chris Bradley is versatile as the day is long – I get the feeling that just walking down the street with him would result in hearing him hum up a new tune. And that is the joy of hanging out around musicians. They are indeed creative folk, often rewarding friends, and the kind of people you want living right down the street from you, xoxo