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Title: Buried treasure from great songwriter
Review: I bought this album in a sale (on cassette tape) about 5 years ago and (shame on me) filed it away after a couple of plays. After hearing Case play live at Downpatrick Folk Club last year I got a copy of the new "Full Service" CD (which is brilliant) and started to hunt through my back catalogue for copies of the first album and "Blue Guitar". How could I have been so deaf to the merits of this superb recording - Case at his urgent best with songs about great characters and situations. The playing is very strong, some Ry Cooderish guitar, some Latin influences, but the style definitely Case and a couple of real classic songs - "Put Down the Gun", "Hidden Love" and "Poor Tom". It's a natural progression from the first album, and after a few lesser albums which followed, sets the highest standards which were achieved, indeed surpassed by "Full Service". This man , and this album (sadly hard to get) deserve to be heard!
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