I bought the Dana Gross album pirate love longs just before Christmas and I have been listening to it a lot since. He’s from Portland, Maine where he is starting to get recognised in the folk scene there. Apart from on kick the chunk where he uses a banjo, with just an acoustic guitar, harmonica and his rather unique voice Dana writes beautiful folk songs about love, heartbreak and hardship. For me he reminds me a lot of Townes Van zandt especially on the song crooks, heartthread and pirates but also some delta blues influenced sounds on sumac and gypsies. Some great songwriting on here too most notably on came & went and paradise. This is an extremely solid debut solo album from the beautiful opening track came & went to the closing track praying to the moon with some great guitar picking throughout and I think it’s an album that once you hear will come back to time and time again and completely love, just like i have.
Had I been able to review this album in 2007 it would have been in my top 10 albums of last year, I think it’s that good, but as it wasn’t released until i believe the 18th December will put intoo my 2008 list.
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