Damien Jurado - Saint Bartlett (From Salisbury Journal)
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Damien Jurado - Saint Bartlett
3:57pm Thursday 3rd June 2010 in CD Reviews
Saint Bartlett
Artist - Damien Jurado
Album - Saint Bartlett
Label - Secretly Canadian
Damien Jurado is one of those songwriters that all songwriters know and love, but who is all-but-unknown to the public here in the UK.
With an ability to write a genuinely affecting song, and deliver it in a vulnerable, sweet voice, and then do it another 11 times on the same record, his under-recognition is unfair.
On his tenth studio album, Saint Bartlett sees him return to form after the variable Caught In The Trees.
Produced by (the excellent in his own right) Richard Swift, Saint Bartlett is a bleaker, quieter more honest affair, which suits him right down to the ground - he is not an arranger, just a very very good storyteller, and there are some wonderful stories here. As a way into Damien Jurado, there are no better places to start.
Rating 8/10
Mike Rea
