Redolent and Refreshed
The Road When I Was
Young is the wonderful 2008 song that opens this album of revisits to Steve
Tilston’s illustrious back catalogue, the lyrics my first song it still lingers…and I did stand in line with the
folksingers so apt for the memorable music he has written and performed over
the many years.
My previous reviews of several of his albums, and seeing him
the once live in 2015, can be found here, and these should additionally speak to
the extremely high regard I have for his music and playing. This collection therefore
needs little extra detail other than to further wax lyrical over the sublime guitar
work and singing you will hear – that vocal sounding as pristine as ever, and also
remarkably youthful and reminiscent of his earliest work. Mentioned quite
rightly as a guitarist in the same breath as Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and
Wizz Jones, Tilston continues to impress as well as keep alive this lineage of
folk greatness – listen to the wonderful finger picking and sudden descending
chord shifts in All in a Dream; range
with the banjo in – as one should hear – Let
Your Banjo Ring; the instrumental Shinjuku
from 1971’s An Acoustic Confusion with
some typically fine runs.
It’s Not My Place to
Fall and I Really Wanted You are
also from An Acoustic Confusion and are,
as ever, gorgeous to hear, and the album has nineteen tracks in all and each is
beautifully redolent of the past as much as a reminder of how brightly class
still shines today, not least in the timeless performance Tilston displays throughout.
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