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Ken Nicol – Thirteen reasons
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www.kennicol.co.uk



Albion Band and Steeleye Span’s ace lead guitarist is back with a new album of skillful strong originals. Thirteen reasons, all good!

Ken Nicol is a strong singer/songwriter influenced as much from american seventies L.A. scene as from English contemporary folk scene. After a long staying on the south west coast with his band , Easy Street, he came back and started from the scratch making his way in a different industry. Good as he is he had non long resting time in his homeland as early as Godfather of Folk Rock, Ashley Hutchings, “rediscovered” him and invited him to join the glorius Albion Band. Nicol, now part of very well equipped Steeleye Span, he’s back on the saddle again and his new solo album(his third) is a real listening pleasure for those who love folk rock with some american country rock influences. Ken, very wit and with an innate sense of dry humour( “The liquid petroleum Gas Song”, “ That could’ve been me”)), is backed on his new album by Steeley Span in full force augmented by the incredible Joe Broughton on fiddle ( another young name grown up in the Albion band’s team).
From “Southern skies” to “10 reasons” there’s no filler here and Nicol’s intimate side is the best discovery in an album that stands the comparison with bigger name of the Conteporary English Folk Rock Scene of which he has to considered by good reason now integrant part.

Ernesto de Pascale