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"If Folk on Tap were in the position to give out awards, then Hilary James and Simon Mayor would take the Best Album of the Quarter Award for their Musical Mystery Tour 2 - an album which had my kids dancing and singing and asking for repeated plays. And when the kids were in bed, I snuck another couple of private hearings for myself.
Absolutely flawlessly performed, the singing is deadpan and tuneful and done with immaculate precision, while the instrumental playing on guitar, bass, mandolin, banjo etc, well...words fail me.
The lyrics are by Hilary and Simon (others are trad), and are individual and witty. Shades of Spike Jones and his City Slickers inhabit Slippery Slimy Trout: anyone who has heard Jones gargle the William Tell Overture will know what to expect when Mayor and James take on Schubert's Trout Quintet.
Get it, and have a box of Kleenex standing by: it's the best tonic in a very long time."
Hilary James & Simon Mayor
c/o Acoustics Records
PO Box 350, Reading RG6 7DQ, England
+44 (0)118 926 8615
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