Idealist.
Graphic designer Bill Price has alternated CD’s with his band The Brains Behind Pa with solo efforts since 2002.
In the thirteen songs on his second full-length solo CD the singer/guitarist Bill plays more acoustically than on his previous ones, The Circus And The Gallows and Bones And Apples, and on the two CDs with his group. Still BBP keyboardist Gary Bole and BBP bass player Jefff Stone play servingly. Price’s guitar and vocals and Paul Holdman’s semi-acoustic guitar solos determine the sound.
Against an often swinging, folky background Price again proves that he can make all kinds of themes personal as a storyteller: politics, relationships, dreams (about the future), American history and the inner city. He uses symbols and metaphores that are not always understood immediately, but he explains every songs in the booklet that goes with this exceptionally beautifully designed digipack.
Apart from that he links them thematically, also because opener Hear Me Out and closer Last Word turn the CD into a real song cycle.
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Published on www.popmagazineheaven.nl with Heaven no. 65, March-April 2010/no. 2