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Waiting for the Light to Change by Ben Wakeman
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fave it Modern Folk | Folk Rock
11 tracks | 48 minutes
Released Nov 2006
on Great Unknown Music
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A collection of acoustic guitar-driven songs orchestrated around Wakeman’s salt and honey voice. He delivers songs at every stop from honest and poignant to playful and irreverent and every single one is big enough to fill a hall and yet somehow small en
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Released in November of 2006, this album yields a rich collection of songs charting previously untold depths unexplored in Ben's previous efforts. Gritty, honest and in some cases irreverent, these songs have an immediacy and a genuine quality rarely found in music today. Listening to the CD, you get the sense that Ben is finally comfortable in his own skin and these songs are not trying too hard, but simply translating his experiences and observations into four minute stories that take you in from the first chord.
The album is still very much rooted in Ben's love of folk music, but it is also a much more visceral and aggressive recording. The seething drive to the edge that is "Shut Me Down" should draw no comparisons to James Taylor. With it's throttled electric guitar and decidedly pessimistic lyric, the song is an intense burn until the hammering final chords.
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