Word Paintings The Keith James Songbook

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A unique voice within the fabric of music in the UK

Word Paintings

THE KEITH JAMES SONGBOOK

Mature, insightful and intriguing. Emotionally giving and honest

Keith enjoyed a very successful ‘Troubadour on vinyl’ era as an archetypal young acoustic singer-songwriter; through curiosity, he turned to being a record producer for over a decade spanning the ‘90s. Since then, he has become the most recognised and consistently championed concert performer in the ‘Arts Theatre’ scene. His beautiful, interpretive concerts of poets and writers that he admires have all run for hundreds of shows spanning many years. ‘The Songs of Nick Drake’ to over one thousand concerts.

The success of these concerts has been such, that it has somewhat eclipsed Keith’s own material, and so the writing and release of this new and significant body of work ‘Word Paintings’ has given Keith, and those alongside him the confidence to open a door and let all these rarely heard originals become a concert.

The songs from ‘Word Paintings’ – a stand-alone, highly acclaimed new collection – are at the forefront of this concert, set amongst the characterful and fearless songs from ‘Can you imagine’ 2020, the vital commentary of ‘Paradise lost’ 2019 and the poetic imagery of ‘Message from the Gods’ 2017, the best selection of Keith’s material across the past decade. The evening is by no means just music. There is a ‘chatting late into the night at a Taverna’ feel about the backstories and the embryonic seed of inspiration to each of the songs.