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Hailed by many as the new Bob Dylan, Willy Mason sure has a lot of weight to bare on his shoulders with this album debut. It's a little bit folky, a little bit country, a little bit rock; but all of it is very Willy Mason.
One of my favourite things about this album is the fact it sounds so natural and unproduced, but in a good way. It does lack polish, but this is what makes it all the more likable. Part of this comes from Mason's voice, which always seems a little bit off-key or a little bit out of time with the glorious music he is playing. This is not the only thing that people have compared to Dylan.
Mason's lyrics also have a sense of urgency and passion which I haven't heard the likes of in a while. There are political undercurrents sprinkled through the album; on one song he may be criticizing George Bush (this is hardly original, but the way he does it definitely is) and on another he bemoans the priveleged, American middle classes who wallow in their own complacence.
He also gives us a couple of stonking anthems in the process of the record. "Oxygen" and "Still A Fly" are beautiful. There are a couple of songs which don't quite click- the opener, for example, doesn't quite work, but the album's highlights far outweight this.
Please don't be put off the album by the recent speight of bland singer songwriters, such as James Blunt. Willy Mason's sound is pretty incomparable in modern musical terms, but this is what makes his so lovable. If you go to his official website you can see this too; his tastes and sense of humour are a bizarre mix of avant-garde and school-boy like.
Time will tell whether Willy Mason is as good as Mr Dylan. But one might note that Bob Dylan's debut album was not lauded, and was not that successful when it was originally released.
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