Beth Nielsen Chapman & Robert Vincent - 30/ 3/2018

I include the support act in the gig title as he was the reason I bought tickets after seeing him perform a couple of tracks on TV. It was a shame he only had 30 minutes to share his songs which he delivered with a strong distinctive singing voice and accompanied by his own guitar and fiddle/banjo/mandolin from Robbie Taylor. They were two Liverpudlians but the music was pretty much Americana with some blues and country influences there. They played mostly tracks from his new album 'I'll Make the Most of my Sins'. Beth Nielsen Chapman is one of what seems to be a very long list of Southern US singer songwriters that can also be loosely included under the label of Americana. She reminded me a bit of Linda Rondstatt in her singing style and the songs were strong and interesting. She did a lot of stuff from her new album ('Heart of Glass') which has consistently good songs. I remember 'Come to Mine', 'Epitaph for Love', 'Rage on Rage', 'You're Still My Valentine' and 'If My World Didn't Have you'. For an encore they did 'All you need is Love' The band included Robert Vincent, Robbie Taylor and a pianist/bassist/keyboards player called Ruth Trimble who got to do one track of her own. In between songs she chatted about the source of the songs and the state of politics (no friend of Trump). A nice evening and St Georges should have been sold out.