Scratched Surface
Dave Edwards' first album Scratched Surface was compiled from songs written at and just after leaving high school, and home-recorded on almost no budget. It is a conscious homage to Bob Dylan's early acoustic albums, but with a 90s grunge and alt-country slant. The arrangements are bare, often solo guitar, with additional guitars, harmonica, bass and hand percussion on some tracks. It ranges from acoustic balladry to no-wave punk, naked emotionalism to satire, and as its multiple-meanings title suggests, is often all of these at once...
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