Madman available on April 10 2016 from Amazon for 6.43
UPC bar code 045778732425 ξ1 registered April 10 2016
Product category is Audio
Manufacturered by ANTI Records
Product weight is 0.15 lbs.
Sean Rowe, who The Wall Street Journal wrote "recalls the ecstatic intensity of late-'60s Van Morrison and stark subtlety of late-era Johnny Cash" has created a beautifully primal work. Madman is deliberately simple in both arrangement and composition. It is soul music in the purest and most literal sense, hypnotic rhythms, warmly distorted guitars and Rowe's incredible voice recalling a time, real or imagined, when music and people seemed distinctly more connected.
I have not been this taken with a songwriter since discovering Michael J. Sheehy.Mr. Rowe's voice has been compared to everyone from Tom Waits to JohnnyCash, including Greg Brown, Leonard Cohen etc. There is even an element ofNick Cave in his balladry. His songwriting is as if Cohen and Waits hadan illegitimate son and grafted Tom Jones' voice box on him.This is my second album by Sean Rowe, the first being the exquisite Sa..