From: Pete Fyfe
[petefyfe_at_aol_dot_com]
Sent: 26 March 2012 15:42
Subject: Pete Fyfe - Seth
Lakeman: Tales From The Barrel House CD review
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SETH LAKEMAN - Tales From The
Barrel House (Honour Oak Records HNRCD01)
I've long admired the chutzpah
of The Lakeman Brothers and in particular Seth for his go-ahead attitude to the
music business. Self-belief in one's creative direction is no bad thing and in
respect of this he must now be truly titled a ?folk' hero for those that have
followed him from his early career. He is now a fully paid-up member of the
?cottage industry' process with not only singer/songwriter under his belt but
multi-instrumentalist, producer, mixer and record company director to his
credit. Whatever next?Simon Cowell's chair on the X-Factor? Drawing many
influences from his colourful West Country background the songs he relates may
be rooted in the traditional idiom but are given the driving passion
(particularly with his attention to detail in the lyrics) of a young man more
comfortable in the twentieth century. Like Barry Dransfield before him his
passion in allowing his double-stopped fiddle bow to be submitted to the
indignity of winding-up looking more like Miss Whiplash's cat of nine tails at
the end of a particularly energetic session shows just how much energy he can
expel. An advocate of really ?having something to say' whether it be the
decline of traditional crafts ("Blacksmith's Prayer") or the demise of tin and
copper factory workers in "Hard Road" the term ?Voice Of The People' could not
be more justified. www.sethlakeman.co.uk
PETE FYFE