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Ernie Graham
Ernie Graham
Ernie Graham
Genres: Pop, Rock
 
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2002 reissue of the British pub-rock singer/guitarist's 1971 album includes two bonus tracks, 'Romeo & The Lonely Girl' & 'Only Time Will Tell'.

     
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All Artists: Ernie Graham
Title: Ernie Graham
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Hux Records
Release Date: 7/28/2003
Genres: Pop, Rock
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
Other Editions: Ernie Graham
UPC: 682970000329

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2002 reissue of the British pub-rock singer/guitarist's 1971 album includes two bonus tracks, 'Romeo & The Lonely Girl' & 'Only Time Will Tell'.
 

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Nice album
Joseph T. McFarland | Natick, MA USANatick, MA United States | 01/29/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)

"Ernie Graham was in Eire Apparant, a psych band produced by Jimi Hendrix that put out an album in 1968. He went on to play on (and write one very good song on) an album by the band Help Yourself (their second, called "Strange Affair").That album, plus all of Help Yourself's CD's, are great, but that's another review. This album doesn't quite match the excellence of a Help Yourself LP/CD, although it has members of Help Yourself and Brinsley Schwarz playing along in grand pub rock tradition. It does have some fine songs and a vaguely Dylanesque delivery. There's some nice hammond organ and the general vibe is mellow and sort of downbeat, kind of like the Brinsley Schwarz sound on their early albums. There's a little bit of the sound of The Band as well, expecially on "Don't Want Me Round You." It's a nice album and sounds better the second and third time and later at night when you don't expect any loud guitar riffs.

The bonus tracks are from a later single (1978) when the music scene and sound had changed. These songs are pleasant enough even if they don't add too much. The song "Romeo" was written by Phil Lynott (a fellow Irishman) and sounds very much like Graham's impersonation of Lynott or Thin Lizzy. It's not bad, but a little out of place stylistically. "Only Time Will Tell" is a little better fit to the rest of the CD, but still has a dfferent pace. The song "Belfast" that closes the album proper has a traditional Irish sound and sounds a bit like a song by folk band Mellow Candle. That one works quite nicely as an album closer. But these tracks are not representative of the general sound, which is less identifiable, and can be described as an interesting mix of the bands mentioned earlier in the review, though always unique. So, not a five star album, like the Help Yourself albums, but a very solid album nonetheless. Ernie Graham died just a few years back. Fortunately, this album is now on CD and gets to be heard without having to locate the hard-to-find l.p. If you like Help Yourself, or any "pub-rock" for that matter, this should be heard. Help Yourself or Ernie Graham fans should also check out Malcolm Morley's solo CD "Lost and Found" , also from the seventies, and also on the Hux label. These two CD's are kind of like a mellower Help Yourself."