Single Of The Week

yes, its once again time to pretend that we come up with a Single of The Week every week....but anyway....this week, by a country mile, it is...

Micah P Hinson 'We Won't Have To Be Lonesome'

Micah P Hinson's latest album '...Red Empire', is a stunning collection of country-noir ballads. If ever an album merited the description 'warm and beautiful' this is it. Hinson's deep, texan croon sits perfectly on top of sparse acoustic arrangements with the occasional orchestral flourish and burst of electric guitar. Needless to say, it is a fine album.

'We Won't Have to be Lonesome', the second single from it, is one of the more traditional sounding country songs on the record and given Hinson's trials and tribulations over the years, it is lovely to hear him singing a simple love song. Micah proposed to his girlfriend at a Union Chapel gig (attended by TracksandGigs) last Christmas, they are now married and this warm (sorry, i was trying to only use that word once in this review) guitar and organ led ballad pretty much tells the story. It soulds like a standard.

B Side 'You Ain't Calling The Shots' is spikier but equally good.

Hinson's music, intimate and lo-fi as it is, sounds better on vinyl so you should definitely be buying this on 7" vinyl, out on Monday 22nd, and available to pre-order from Norman Records and Piccadilly Records, TracksandGigs' recommended vendors.

Hinson tours the UK with Retribution Gospel Choir supporting (or thats the plan anyway) in November.