" 20 years of making music and it’s only natural to start thinking you’ve seen it all, done it all. By the time you’ve witnessed ten thousand men take to the stage with an acoustic guitar to sing about their feelings, you can easily get to the impression that whether magnificent or mediocre they’re all to some degree just recycling the schtick of

" 20 years of making music and it’s only natural to start thinking you’ve seen it all, done it all. By the time you’ve witnessed ten thousand men take to the stage with an acoustic guitar to sing about their feelings, you can easily get to the impression that whether magnificent or mediocre they’re all to some degree just recycling the schtick of Bob Dylan, James Taylor or any number of whiskey-sodden bluesmen. Then one rainy night in the Netherlands I saw Abe Partridge take to the stage with an acoustic guitar and it felt like the first time anybody ever thought to try it. He didn’t just sing his songs, he set fire to them. It was brutal and tender and smart and angry and funny and brilliantly, uniquely authentic. I saw it as a magnificent reminder that great songs, delivered with honest intensity were what first made me want to do any of this in the first place. So inviting Abe to tour the UK became an act of civic duty. I wanted to share this gift with my fellow citizens. The series of performances he gave enraptured audiences everywhere we went and I feel truly grateful for the nineteen October evenings we spent playing our music and telling our stories. I hope we will do it again someday." - David Ford

1. Out of Alabama (London)
2. Not Teacher Blues (London)
3. Undisclosed Location in Southwest Asia Killing Floor Blues (London)
4. Preaching the Blues (London)
5. Abe Partridge's 403d Freakout (London)
6. Colors (London)
7. Black Flag T-Shirt Lament (Sheffield)
8. Get Thee Behind Me, Hippie (Shoreham)
9. Our Babies Will Never Grow Up to be Astronauts (Sheffield)
10. White Trash Lipstick (Hebden Bridge)