Benjamin Wetherill
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"...Nothing is straightforward about Ben Wetherill. Despite sporting the classically gaunt features and clothes of a 1930s English poet there is no easily explained centre to his mix of originals and covers. Songs stop and change time signature and direction, his voice small and quiet but demanding attention, his influences deep and wide, a bit of John Fahey, some George Formby, old-time acoustic blues men, English folk, Woody Guthrie. . . Theres more to Ben than meets the eye. Steeped in the past but not trapped by it, he seems to approach everything from different angles at the same time, a lyrical approach which attempts to see life in the round. Its all done so easily and quietly and delicately all you notice at first is his shirt and tidy cardy and sly sense of humour" Harrogate Today