Artists:Bob Bradshaw
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Bob's first tentative musical steps were taken in Cork, Bob Bradshaw’s latest solo release, Enjoy Your Confusion, is an ambitious collection of 14 heart wrenching songs about love, loss, highways and whiskey, identity and communication, all colored by his dark Irish wit. His style is an intriguing mixture of Elvis Costello, Wilco and Kurt Weill - with a twist.
The twist is Bradshaw’s background and, like the title of his album, ‘Enjoy Your Confusion’, he’s a bit of a paradox himself. He’s an Irish Alt-country musician, who taught himself guitar by following chord shapes in an Eagles songbook he found tossed behind a local bar in Cork and, he says, by “marinating himself" in the traditional Irish sounds of his native soil.
As diverse and strong as Bradshaw’s musical skills are, he has always felt that his lyrics were the strongest parts of his songs. A nationally published fiction writer, short-listed for a Hennessy literary award, he spent what he now calls a year "doing time" writing a novel before deciding that music was what wanted to do with his life. And with that decision, Bradshaw strapped his guitar over his shoulder and headed for Portugal. He sang Irish traditional songs in a bar for the first summer, then ended up performing throughout Germany and Scandinavia in the warmer months and wintering back in Portugal. With his travels, he broadened his range with songs by the Pogues, U2 and Bruce Springsteen as “they carried well in the streets”.
In 1990, Bradshaw moved to the States, landed in New York City and traveled across the country to San Francisco, picking up along the way a deeper understanding and respect for American county music. “I had not been able to take country music seriously during my European days but it began to make sense and as I traveled across America. As Charlie Parker is supposed to have commented about country music, ‘Listen to the stories’,”, Bradshaw said. It was then also that he began listening to the American roots/folk music that would permeate his songs: John Hiatt's ‘Bring The Family’, The Bands ‘Music From Big Pink’, Elvis Costello's ‘King Of America’. More
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| A Love That Won't Take No For An Answer | Enjoy Your Confusion | 3:32 | 2 |  0 votes |
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You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Tell Me A Story | Enjoy Your Confusion | 3:24 | 11 |  2 votes |
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- Songs on WWR: 11
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