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Love And Optimism

by Davey Woodward

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    limited to 200 copies - white vinyl version in cuddly black inner sleeve with lyric sheet.

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  • Limited edition black vinyl 12" album
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Bad Day 03:06
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Hard 03:37
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Aliens 04:30
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Warm Hands 04:21
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The Mall 03:58
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about

Davey's songs are always diverse, this album manages a range of moods and styles but maintains a certain feel somewhere between folk and indie pop. Released in the middle of the covid pandemic the album perfectly captured the mood of loneliness and disconnect in songs like 'Occupy this Space'. 6 Musics Gideon Coe picked up on this and played the song reguarily. A song like 'Bad Day' is 60s garage punk. Theres pastoral tunes like ' Northern Slopes', folk blues with 'Clara's Ghost' and soulful improvisation with the title track 'Love and Optimism'.

Davey, together with his congenial band The Winter Orphans very much recorded "live" in the studio, to get feel and emotion into the songs. It recalls the methods of 1960s artists who would record an album in a few days. This recording method succeeds in keeping the songs sounding fresh and spontaneous. There is no laboured tracking on this record and it benefits from this. Possibly a record out of time with modern trends but all the better for it. The songs put Davey solidly amongst the best songwriters of his generation.

Davey Woodward ;Singer, Guitarist, Harmonica
Julian Hunt; Lead Guitar
Steve Dew Drums and Percussion
Jonathan ( JB) Bewley Bass

Assisted by
Harry Furniss- Cornet.

credits

released October 27, 2020

The songs were Recorded and Produced by Joe Garcia at Joe’s Garage, Bristol, England. Mastered by James Plotkin, USA.
All the songs are written by Davey Woodward, Copyright Control 2020

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Davey Woodward Bristol, UK

Davey Woodward fronted indie bands The Brilliant Corners and The Experimental Pop Band. He also plays in alt rock trio Karen and The Winter Orphans, a group of friends realising the potential of his solo songs.

In the last two decades he has mainly been writing acoustic solo Intimate folk punctuated by ‘new wave’.

Davey lives in a tree house somewhere in Bristol. England.
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