Wednesday 28 February 2007

Willy Mason - 21st Century Boy


Chances are you've heard of this one before, but American acoustic talent Willy Mason is gearing up to release his second album here in the UK, with a tour soon to follow. Although doing nothing new, he has his own unique style and vocal quality which no other 22 year old on the scene can match.

For somebody so young his songs show a startling maturity and glorious ear for melody. You might have heard his "hit" before, a song called Oxygen off his first album entitled Where The Humans Eat.

The son of two US based folk singers, he's clearly been brought up steeped in the traditions of folk and parhaps less obviously americana insprired melody.

With new album If The Ocean Gets Rough due out in a fortnight, it seems as good a time as any to put up a few samples of his work for download in the hope that you'll like and purchase his new album...

I've chosen two live tracks from Glastonbury (Oxygen being his biggest hit, and Wild Dog Blues being my personal favourite track of his) plus a John Lennon cover, because it's rare and stuff. Also pretty damn tasty.

You can purchase the forthcoming Willy Mason album, If The Ocean Gets Rough from the following link:

Willy Mason - If The Ocean Gets Rough

Enjoy!

Simon x

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Follow the links to download the tracks...

Willy Mason - Oxygen (Live @ Glastonbury 2005)
Willy Mason - Wild Dog Blues (Live @ Glastonbury 2005)
Willy Mason - Nobody Told Me (John Lennon Cover)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I'm very much looking forward to this albu,. Stopped listening to willy for a while while exploring other things but ive found myself going back to him..he cheered me up the other week when i was blue. For that i will always love him