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Last Orders At Harry's Bar

"OK, there's strictly no excuse unless it be that since leaving One Little Indian Songdog have retreated a bit further into the shadows but that still doesn't justify my having taken almost a year to realise that one of my five favourite bands of the last ten years has released a new album.

Last Orders at Harry's Bar isn't my favourite of the band's albums; not even my second and maybe not even my third. It is nonetheless excellent, which says a great deal about the quality of their output. Perhaps the Americana thread in their sound is a little too much to the fore here with the rootsy instrumentation (harmonica, banjo), the self-flagellating ballads intercut with passages of a quasi-bluegrass swing.

It's really very good, this cowboy thing, but I prefer Songdog when they marry all this with their earthier and more overtly British side. Still, Lyndon Morgans's voice remains one of the most expressive and moving you'll ever hear and his lyrics achieve a rare poetic power. And not one of these 14 songs (yes, they certainly don't short-change their fans) is anything less than good. One of the great unsung bands of the 21st century."