album:Radiogram genre:Rock Blues streams:10 creation date:2014-09-01
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The third Fab Tone Records single from Welsh / Australian songwriter, axesmith Gwyn Ashton's 'Radiogram' album sees a collaboration with ex Robert Plant,...
The third Fab Tone Records single from Welsh / Australian songwriter, axesmith Gwyn Ashton's 'Radiogram' album sees a collaboration with ex Robert Plant, Clannad, Bronco and Silverhead guitarist Robbie Blunt. Together they intertwine beautifully sculptured solos with Ashton on Weissenborn lap slide guitar and Blunt on lead duties. Ashton lured the composer of 'Big Log' out of hiatus, after his stints with artists such as Tom Petty and Deborah Bonham, with a track that he couldn't resist. Magnum's Mark Stanway supplies organ to the track with ex UB40 and Culture Club singer Mo Birch on backing vocals.
Penned on a train journey across Germany on a newly-purchased guitar bought in a local music store, "Fortunate Kind' is a rootsy, Americana-styled track, lamenting Ashton's homeland of Australia and was filmed in the middle of the Worcestershire floods in Feb 2014. A slight departure from Ashton's harder blues, it's a soulful, haunting ballad that no country, blues and rock music fan should pass up.
Aussie guitar maestro Gwyn Ashton’s back with Radiogram, a hard-driving renegade rock and blues album heaving with hook-laden, catchy songs and killer riffs....
Aussie guitar maestro Gwyn Ashton’s back with Radiogram, a hard-driving renegade rock and blues album heaving with hook-laden, catchy songs and killer riffs. We reckon it's a pretty good album. So do Kim Wilson, Robbie Blunt, Don Airey and Mark Stanway. In fact, they liked it so much they PLAYED on it! Guitar wiz Ashton was previously voted third place as “Guitarist of The Year” by Guitar Part magazine, behind Jeff Beck and Gary Moore at number one and two.