There are many things that can be said about singer songwriters – both complementary and not – but few would deny that a singer songwriter is the one most likely to take the honest path on their journey to musical nirvana and honesty is indeed one quality that is infused with certainty into Jude Edwin-Scott’s album “Birdsong”.
This album is a straight down the line example of the art of the singer songwriter well studied in the ways of the folk musicians of the past with many of these songs – mostly self-penned at that – drawing on historical events and personages for inspiration. Underpinning this most traditional approach to arranging words into meaningful order is Jude Edwin-Scott’s evident mastery of the finger picking style with the result being not as much a heartfelt statement of intent as a precisely realised conflagration of focussed verisimilitude.
While no one evidencing the restrained presentation would really consider “Birdsong” as a collection of protest songs, it is nonetheless clear that these eleven exchanges of pleasantries between performer and listener are about as organic as you are likely to get in these days of digital enhancement and that can’t be a bad thing.
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