Every so often you come across a solo artist who has only a guitar and a mind full of ideas, which put together, with the help of a few music buddies can create something a little special. A few well strummed notes, put stragetically together attached with lyrics which just sound and fell like butter melting on a hot jacket potato, together with a voice which has that organically rough and tumble, yet mellow and soothing dynamics to it, produce one of the best, if not the best best albums to date.
Ray Lamontagne an individual who has traveled across the pond from his home in New England to this green and pleasant land of ours, has left for our listening delight, debut album Trouble. Album title track is so infectious in itself that that one song along can and shall sell this album by the truck load. Lamontagne's careful and smooth action with the guitar produces heavenly scores which drift upwards, through the clouds and hitch on to the air currents to be spread all through the open air. And that voice of his, unique, different, warm, yet tinged with emotional discharge that you feel every ounce of the way this man thinks and acts.
With all that is going on in the world today, an album of this quality can only restore peace, and bring an almost universal calm. Ten songs which allow you to drift into a daydream like state, and feel completely and utterly at ease with anything and everything that comes your way. To glide effortless through each song you listen to, can act as a relaxant and have the ability to give way to your inhibitions, letting them loose and free. Ray Lamontagne can transform evil to good in a split second and with the magic tones that emanate from his soul he could turn water into wine. The album its you may say is like a fine vintage, light, yet mysteriously deep and bursting with character and emotional upheaval, giving way to a gently, soothing and delightful after taste. If you wish to purchase one album, which is so breathtakingly beautiful make it this one!