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Sunday, 3 October 2010

One Man & One Guitar

While I sit up destroying my F5 keys in the frantic hunt for Glastonbury tickets. It seems fairly apt to tell you all about a fantastic gig I saw, and shot, last week.

The headline act was one Willie Mason (not Willie Nelson, with whom I had confused Mason on more than one occasion), an American Singer-Songwriter. Support was provided by a man I had never heard of, by the name of Marcus Foster. Both of these two have a penchant for steel-string acoustic guitars and simple but powerful songs. I give a special note to Marcus Foster, who has a fantastic, haunting voice and writes some excellent stuff.

As anyone who knows me will testify, its not too often I go out of my way to listen to 'proper' songs, as written by these two gents, and so it was a great reminder of the amazing power that can be wielded by one man and his guitar. For all the maximal, 174bpm relentless tunes that I normally get off on, sometimes stripping everything back can be just as effective.

I'm now off to google Marcus Foster Breakcore Remix ;-)

Marcus Foster 21/09/10

Marcus Foster 21/09/10

Willie Mason 21/09/10

Willie Mason 21/09/10

4 comments:

  1. have been listening to Marcus for some time now and he is amazing! His voice is sooo unique!
    Have you heard Bobby Long play? He is a friend of Marcus and is also amazing! Different voices and style but both ohh so talented!

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  2. another friend that writes some nice stuff is Sam Bradley

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  3. Marcus Foster is a wonderful songwriter,and no one can pour more emotion into a song. He's brilliant. So glad you got to experience him.
    Great photos, too!

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  4. Marcus Foster is incredibly talented! He has a new EP to be released soon, through Communion Records.

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