Rick Redbeard – No Selfish Heart |

New on Toad: Rick Redbeard - No Selfish Heart

I have been waiting so fucking long for this album that first time I wrote about Rick Redbeard doesn’t even appear on the site anymore, because I lost it when a bunch of posts died in the great WordPress changeover fuckup of 2007. I wrote about his music again that October , and said the following: “If you put his songs up alongside those of Kurt Wagner, Sam Beam, Robert Fisher and Will Oldham then I defy you to spot the callow newcomer in amongst the indie legends. He is not copying this genre, he is adding to it, with gorgeous music that sits comfortably along far more illustrious acts with every right to hold its head confidently high in such company.” As frontman of the Phantom Band, whose intervening success I assume has delayed this album as long as it has, you could hardly call Rick Anthony a callow newcomer anymore, but the rest still stands: this is pretty straigh...

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