Pistol Pete Wearn: A Collection of Blues, Ballads & Barnstormers

You won’t believe that this music of Americana comes from a singer/songwriter from England, but it’s true. Pete Wearn plays guitars, harmonica, kazoo and other things from grandpa’s attic along with Olly Parry/vi, Duncan Wilcox/b and Phil Bronchtein/pstg. There are a couple instrumentals like the two stepping “Queensville Stomp” with Wearn and Parry having a merry old time, but most of the time, you’ve got Wearn being the rural troubadour as on “The Clansman” or sitting on the porch with “Rolling Down The Road”. His picking is clean and classy as on “A Letter” and his kazoo is a hoot for “Not My Circus” with Bronchtein adding texture to the bluesy “Staring At The Walls”. A version “Staggerlee” take the 50s R&B classic and puts it back into the folklore tradition from whence it came. Cumberland Gap sounds from the Midlands.

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