Still a Breath of Fresh Air
Michael Chapman delivered a superb guitar and songwriting
masterclass at The Globe in Topsham last night.
I have enjoyed his latest album 50, and have over the years dipped in and out of his others [though
never as attentively as I now want to return to and do], the occasional listens prompted by my introduction
to him and his song Postcards of Scarborough
on the 1970 Harvest sampler lp Picnic – A
Breath of Fresh Air.
He didn’t play this last night – a shame for my nostalgia
needs – but he entertained with some sustained guitar brilliance, a
well-rehearsed line in Yorkshire semi-redneck repartee, and two songs in particular
that were simply beautiful, The Mallard
and Caddo Lake, this latter a most
gorgeous finger-plucked melody.
Thanks to Chapman for coming to Topsham, and for Julian
Piper who organised.
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