Richard Dawson is a master storyteller and master musician. Through his songs he inhabits his characters, providing snapshots of ordinary lives across Britain today through his medieval-tinged folk in a way that can at one moment be surreal and humorous, and in the next evoke pathos and heartbreak.
His latest album, End of the Middle, focuses on several generations of one family, and how patterns of behaviour repeat across them. It’s a stellar addition to an already stellar discography that has seen him become one of the UKs most prodigious singer songwriters.
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