You may very well have come to the conclusion that common sense is no longer common.
And things like thoughtfulness and kindness are now passé.
All of which makes greeting a new record from Richard Dawson that much more refreshing, that much more welcome. Songs, especially songs with words and extra-especially relatively simple songs with words ask us to pay close attention, ask us to participate as active listeners. They may even ask us to think.
From the liner notes:
“I wanted this record to be small-scale and very domestic”, Dawson explains, “to be stripped back, stark and naked, and let the lyrics and melodies speak for themselves and for the people in the songs”.
I recommend paying attention to Richard Dawson’s End of the Middle, released today on Domino Recording Co., from end to end.
