Bedford Falls

Bedford Falls will be enjoyed by anyone who even vaguley likes a slight Country or 'New Nashville' flavour to thier music, it is full of original numbers like 'Look who's talking, 'Clear blue Sky' and 'It just hangs in the air' and great new instrumental version of the old Blue Grass classic 'Wildwood Flower'called not surprisingly 'New wildwood flower' which retains the haunting beauty of the original number whilst adding new musical direction, interst and interpetation in fascinating way with out 'guilding the lilly'.

The standard of musicianship on this album has to be listened to to be truely appreciated. When various elements of this album are examined, the guitar, steel peddle and dobro are first rate for both style and chord work, the fiddle player is almost too good, more along the lines of concert violinist than a fiddle player. Combine the above attributes with a good steady bass line both electric and on one track accoustic, some great backing vocals and you have a really worth while album be it for back ground music or vibrating your speaker cones to pieces. The only critisism I would level are the slightly machanical nature of the drum machine backing on the odd track, but this is really not enough to detract from the overall highly pleasing nature of the finished result.

This is a 5 Star album.

The album 'Bedford Falls' contains some of the best easy listening I have heard for along time, encompassing not only a host of original songs like 'I know who you are' and 'Look who's talking' but a beautiful and haunting instrumental version of the old bluegrass favorite 'Wildwood flower' entitled 'The new wildwood flower', before anyone gets the idea that this album is just another bluegrass or country offering, let me state that it is not. The flavour of Bedford Falls has a definate country, new Nashville hint but it is not overpowering, there is genuinely some thing for everybody on this album.

The general standard of musicianship, guitar, dobro and steel pedal is out of the very top drawer. The fiddle playing is of a quality and standard that does not suggest anything less than a first class violinist rather than a 'fiddle player'. Combine these two elements with some more than adequate bass, keyboard backing vocals and the result is a very fine easy listening album that is ideal for background music or vibrating the cones out your loud speaker system with.

I am sure that anyone who purchases this album will be more than pleased with it. If this album gets the publicity and air-time it deserves it will sell, it is simply too good not to.