After more than a decade fronting Wagons,the Melbourne artist’s first solo album is awash in the fine bourbons and long, winding stories of NashvilleIt’s a cliche to compare every male Australian singer with a deep timbre to Nick Cave, or but there’s something appealing in the idea of a Cave in cowboy boots – an alternative-universe country Cave who found redemption not in gothic post-punk but in winding tales of tall melodrama and the twang of Nashville guitar.
Meet Henry Wagons,a musician Justin Townes Earle has described as “Dr Seuss meets Conway Twitty”.
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Source: theguardian.com