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The R.G.Morrison

Is much like you

About Me

Thank you for visiting my page.
Drop past Drift Records. we're pretty awesome.
My Album "Learning About Loathing" is out in selected good indie shops and websites, plus some less special people on ebay. it can be downloaded also from itunes et al, and the following nice things were said.
I am recording a second album with various Drift people now. it might just come out this year.
"Raw and vital"
-
Wire Magazine
Morrison piles brave, cinematic folk music that is as heartfelt as it is huggable"
- PlanB
"It's the overall sincerity and confidence that make it a worthy listen."
- FutureMusic Magazine
"marries Satie-like piano figures with wistful graveside meditations"
- Mojo
"It has the bewildering charm of Nick Drake and the lovely gathering darkness of Bonny Prince Billy"
– SubbaCulture
"it's the quality, assuredness and freshness of his material which ensures that The R.G. rises triumphantly above the quagmire of wannabe acoustic-guitar toting poets currently working the circuit.

- TuneTribe
"A bold, confident debut with a bruised, tender flipside. A beauty."
- Crud Magazine
"this is one of those that you must learn to like (which you most definitely will)"
- Americana UK
"It's a long player that alludes to an obscure oxymoron - both depressing and rousing. A clever album with longevity"

- Notion Magazine
"It takes puritan blisters and serious self-control to maintain this sort of melodic hush."
- Pitchforkmedia
"Recalls that of Nick Drake, Elliot Smith and Nick Cave and like the aforementioned contains great songs treated exquisitely by accomplished artists. the debut release from both the band and their label, drift collective, are names to watch out for in 2007."
- Rough Trade Shops
An album that arrives without any press release or info. It doesnt need it. Learning About Loathing, is raw work. Emotive and honest, complex as the emotions and situations it soundtracks and as elegantly simple as its instrumentation...Any of you good people with a Hefner cd in your collection should be pulling your tits off to get at this one, just send me a photo
- Unpeeled Magazine
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/22/2005
Band Website: driftrecords.co.uk
Band Members: R.G.Morrison Vocal / Takamine EF261SAN acoustic guitar / Fender custom DG22-S guitar / Epiphone Sheraton electric guitar / Vox pathfinder 54w amplifier / Cambridge 30R amplifier / church organ / Lindner (shannon, Ireland) upright piano.

S.J.Pearce Vocals / Hand Claps

D.Hart Custom Epiphone Dot, EBow, Vocals, Vox Cambridge 30R amplifier

- Album Line Up -

J.R.Lamb Epiphone sheraton electric guitar / Vantage practice amplifier / Hora Irish bouzouki / backing vocals / Lindner (Shannon, Ireland) upright piano / Pearl export series snare drum / whistling / Dad's classical guitar / 'clipper' refillable cigarette lighter / church organ / Realistic general coverage communications receiver DX-394

S.J. Grainger Premier floor tom & Pearl export series snare drum / Brook (Exeter) hand-crafted 'Taw' acoustic guitar / Tokai ('Jazz' copy) fuzz bass / Native Instruments FM7 software synthesizer / Maroushka (Russian) toy dulcimer / string arrangements / Epiphone sheraton electric guitar (feedback) / 'Egg' shaker / strummed violin (hand-crafted by Colin A. Grainger, Waterlooville, Hampshire 1981) / harmonium / programming / backing vocals

S.A.Megee backing vocals / hand claps

strings:

sara khoroosi - violin
sarah feltham-chesshire - viola
gabriel stebbing - cello
Influences: * Alan Lomax
* Dylan - The Freewheelin' through to Nashville Skyline with the additions of Blood on the Tracks and Time Out of Mind
* Deja Vu
* Davy Graham
* Townes Van Zandt
* Chet Baker
* The Band (1968 - 1969)
Sounds Like: David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Paul Young
Record Label: Drift Records (UK)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Perfect 10... "Troubadour's playlist"

www.tunetribe.comThe good people at Tunetribe recently asked me to pick ten tracks from there vaults that I particularly like. I had a good browse through, and picked out some crackers for your listen...
Posted by The R.G.Morrison on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:12:00 PST

"The future king of lo-fi"

I had a chat with Subba Cultcah last week, and they were kind enough to have posted it on line;http://www.subba-cultcha.com/article.php?id=4173The future king of lo-fi folk gets down to the nitty grit...
Posted by The R.G.Morrison on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:04:00 PST

A 'Hard Rain' has fallen

What a horrid morning. It's not necessary to get into specifics, but I can assure you that my physical state was strained this morning. There were conceivably a million and one things that could have ...
Posted by The R.G.Morrison on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:21:00 PST

Gilles Peterson & Free "Night Falls" Download

Hello Friends.I hope this finds you all well. "Night Falls" was the first track played last week by Gilles Peterson on his BBC evening show.Due to my album being re-released (currently scheduled for m...
Posted by The R.G.Morrison on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:31:00 PST