Talking With The Taxman About Poetry - Billy Bragg

Talking With The Taxman About Poetry is an absolutely essential record from one of the finest singer / songwriters England - or anywhere else - has ever produced. It is as raw and as honest as the two albums which proceeded it - Life's A Riot With Spy VS Spy and Brewing Up With... - whilst playing host to an instrumental diversity hitherto sidelined in favour of that extraordinary, stark, piercing electric guitar / terrace-chant vocals combo. Billy Bragg understands better than anyone since Woody Guthrie how entwined the personal and the political truly are. For the most part, the protest songs and the love songs are wound so tight around one another as to be ...  Read the complete review

Now stop thinking jeeeez this woman has appaling taste! I know I have look I even own a Dire Straits Cd ( but shhhhhhhh we won't talk about that now will we?) Billy Bragg in his pre Woody Gutherie cover versions days was very much an acquired taste! His monotone neo chanting style of singing accompanied by him strumming along on his guitar wasn't every ones cup of tea - my mum particularly hated him with a vengence this might have due to the fact I like to sing along with our Billy! Now if you thought Billy was tone deaf you should have heard me singing along at the top of my voice! My Mum thought of him as a busker who got a record contract some ...  Read the complete review