Charlie Winston - Running Still [2011][EAC,log,cue. FLAC]

Artist: Charlie Winston
Release: Running Still
Released: 2011
Label: Because Music
Catalog#: 2564662226
Format: FLAC / Lossless / Log (100%) / Cue
[color=blue]Country: UK
Style: Folk,pop,singer-songwriter



01. Hello Alone (3:18)
02. Speak to Me (3:20)
03. Where Can I Buy Happiness? (3:44)
04. The Great Conversation (4:18)
05. She Went Quietly (4:00)
06. Unlike Me (3:48)
07. Until You're Satisfied (3:24)
08. Wild Ones (3:52)
09. Making Yourself So Lonely (4:16)
10. Rockin' in the Suburbs (3:05)
11. Summertime Here All Year (5:03)
12. Lift Me Gently (3:42)

Charlie Winston isn't the only compositeur anglais to have acquired a vociferous French following, but he's the only one in recent times to have had a No 1 album there (2009's Hobo) while remaining almost unknown in his home country. France has been captivated by the idea that he's a rakish Anglo troubadour – acoustic guitar, jaunty hat, weatherbeaten voice – with a streak of Gallic seen-it-allness (as made manifest by the line "I sit around drinking coffee all day/ Nothing to do and a little to say" in Speak to Me). The romance of it all doesn't play quite so well in Britain, but this album is still a palatable addition to the adult-contemporary genre. While his default style is the wronged-Romeo acoustic melancholia of Hello Alone, he's comfortable and convincing in other styles: Princely electro-funk (Until You're Satisfied), beatboxing (Speak to Me) and Paul Youngish white soul (Where Can I Buy Happiness?). All that's keeping him from UK success is the surfeit of similar songwriters, from Chris Rea to his own better-established brother, Tom Baxter