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Release Date Friday 15th November 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
This is Northumberland songwriter, poetand raconteur Peter Alexander Jobson's debut solo album 'Burn The Ration Books Of Love'.
Recorded at hishome studio and produced by Ben Christophers, the album is an extraordinary collection that blends genres as diverse as country-flavoured psychedelia and cocktail jazz with the spirit of the Northern variety circuit. His vocals answer the question: what if Serge Gainsbourg had been born in the North East of England? Inspirations include Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Scott Walker, blues and country legends like Robert Johnson and Hank Williams, and Northern entertainers of days past like Les Dawson and the great Jake Thackray.
Jobson made his name as bass guitarist and keyboard player in I Am Kloot. After six albums and 16 successful years together the cult trio of Jobson, drummer Andy Hargreaves and singer/guitarist John Bramwell broke up after a final triumphant performance at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the 2016 Meltdown Festival on London's South Bank. I Am Klootwere noted for their distinctive sound, the jazzy swing of Jobson and built a fervent following both in the UK and across Europe, culminating in a Mercury Music Prize nomination for their lavish fifth album, 'Sky At Night' - produced by Elbow's Guy Garvey and Craig Potter in 2010.
Heavily autobiographical in inspiration, the songs on 'Burn The Ration Books Of Love' are deeply rooted in Jobson's lived experience, and in his geographical roots in Northumberland, with its wild, windswept coastline, rugged hills and moors, and extensive agricultural farmland where his family have worked the land for generations.
CD Tracks: Holiday (Live) / Mountain / The Night Of The Fire / Taxi Supplies / Go Go / Foolish Boy / Please Please Please / Home / Kesta / Just 'Cause I'm Dead / Burn The Ration Books of Love
LP Fire Marble Effect Vinyl + Black 7" Tracks: Holiday (Live) / Mountain / The Night Of The Fire / Taxi Supplies / Go Go / Foolish Boy / Please Please Please / Home / Kesta / Just 'Cause I'm Dead / Burn The Ration Books of Love
LP Tracks: Holiday (Live) / Mountain / The Night Of The Fire / Taxi Supplies / Go Go / Foolish Boy / Please Please Please / Home / Kesta / Just 'Cause I'm Dead / Burn The Ration Books of Love
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