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Dead Fools Gold

Autumn Red

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Amazing

Autumn Red have worked really hard at this album & it shows (or hears). Lloyd should be really proud of this work. I look forward to loads more. It's very easy listening and I just LOVE the banjo. Thanks and keep on sending it out.

Good for all times

This album has weaved it's way into my daily life, it's good to listen to when working, it's good for chilling, and it's got the energy and sing-along capabilities to be good for going out. Love it.

Green man Review

We all know that music is a cyclical process and as such there always seems to be a revival of one past genre or another. At the moment, I’m glad to say there seems to be a roots renaissance taking place. Although that’s quite a vague umbrella term, you can’t deny that a lot of contemporary bands are incorporating folk and old time Americana into their musical creations or using instruments that are surprisingly out of step with recent trends. It’s possibly a reaction to the assault of overly glossy, electronically enhanced pop pap and fashion fixated rock dross, the result of the ever-increasing commerciality of music. Whatever the reasons a whole wave of bands are turning on to the glorious back catalogue of music that history provides and none are doing it with more class than Autumn Red.

The album, Dead Fools Gold, is more or less a solo album by main man Lloyd Williams but acts as the core material that the full band take on the road with them. And what a gem it is. By combining the haunting sounds of the depression era Southern States of America with modern production techniques, it sounds more like a sound track to a time long lost, a modern re-imagining of dustbowl days and delta blues, hillbilly highways and the sounds of the bayous. It’s not so much about the authentic sounds of the times as it is about capturing the heart and soul of where the music was born.

Some of the songs, Mississippi Burning and Long Way Down, for example seem to be built with a slightly edgy banjo driven urgency, but there are also plenty of more delicate creations such as the evocative I Will Show You Their Lies, weaving wonderful guitar picking with a spiralling violin and a chilling, fractured piano. And in between there are songs that move from one camp to the other. The Sun Goes In is such a song, building from the realms of smooth guitar ballad to frantic hoedown over the course of its delivery. And on top of all of these creations is a voice that manages to combine warmth with a raw edge, adding to the driving passion that fills every corner of this collection of songs.

This is no museum piece, no mere collection of old time set pieces put down for prosperity. It’s a wonderful re-invention of past glories, a way of keeping those sounds alive whilst at the same time moving them forward, keeping them fresh, and giving them a new lease of life. All in all it is a stunning album and one that will divide the audience into two camps, those who actually have a soul and those who don’t.

Dead Fools Gold, Autumn Red
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