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Morning Bride Lea Valley Delta Blues
Letterbox Records

Article written by James S
May 23, 2007.


Of all the musical movements you might expect to take hold amongst the trendsetters in East London, country-rock isn’t necessarily the first to spring to mind. However, thanks to the likes of What’s Cookin’ and the Duke of Uke, the capital’s contemporary cowboys are looking for postcodes with more E numbers than the fizzy pop shelf in Netto.

The latest batch to arrive on the scene wearing spurs on their boots rather than Spurs shirts are Morning Bride. Comprising three English guys alongside two all-American gals, the album’s title ‘Lea Valley Delta Blues’ gives you a pretty good idea of the transatlantic nature of their upbringing and influences.

Morning Bride’s dynamic is largely built around main singer-songwriter Mark James Pearson and fellow lead vocalist Amity Joy Dunn. The latter in particular has a fine resonating voice, reminiscent of Tarnation’s Paula Frazer, especially on Stepping Out In Front Of Cars, where Dunn evokes Frazer’s fabulous turn on Cornershop’s Good To Be On The Road Back Home Again.

Musically, the band combines some faithful guitar twang with a more contemporary indie rock feel, then chuck in some pretty cello touches for good measure. The resulting songs range from the rocky current download single Replica to the moody but magnificent cheating confessional Faith Is Blind, where Dunn warns “The more mistakes I conspire to make, the less they seem to feel like mistakes.”

The album is rounded off with its most trad country moment, Mother Hackney, wherein Pearson nicks the guitar part from Tammy Wynette’s Your Good Girl’s Gonna Go Bad for his paean to his home borough (“up and coming round the marshes when she comes”). Once more, the old wild west seems to have found a worthy home in the new equally wild east.

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