Poets Balladeers & Cheats

Within Poets,Balladeers and Cheats,Mr H explores many genres in his unique style of composition from blues,jazz,folk and rock which combined create catchy Jazz/Blues and Roots based songs.

His vocal style has been described as somewhere between Chris Rea and Dave Gilmour. Guesting are Nik Turner (Ex Hawkwind) and Steve Tarner one of the UK's top session guys. This is real sadness and melancholia,Mr H is rock bottom sadness.

Don't be fooled by the up-tempo 'It's not right' starter.

It's all down hill from there on.'Can't help you now' has a Neil Youngy 'Love to burn' feel to it.'Old Soldier' is Tom Waits/Charles Bukowski territory.'Paint the rocks' has those disturbing chords and starts with the word 'loneliness' and Nik slips into the vocal gaps like a thief,so I think we get the idea. By the time 'Walking in the wind' comes along,the vocal does'nt start until a minute into the track and we're sat on a pavement at four in the morning with an empty bottle of bourbon.

This track is so low down the food chain,it's practically subterranean with the rat monkeys.

Luckily Nik still has breath in his lungs to honk to the bitter end.