The Best Thing Thats Happened

Description

The Best Thing Thats Happened is the sophomore full-length album by the British singer and songwriter Rob Halligan, independently released in 2009. The album was engineered by Sandy Jones at the Foundry Music Lab in Motherwell, Scotland; with Graeme Duffin producing. Featuring guest vocals from Yvonne Lyon and Gareth Davies-Jones and guitar work from producer Duffin of Wet Wet Wet fame.

Rob’s decision to travel up to Glasgow’s Foundry Music Lab and work with Wet Wet Wet guitar maestro Graeme Duffin on his new album was a smart one. Suddenly Rob’s insightful, melodically warm observations on life and the cosmos have sufficient punch and power to attract radio play that the previous releases from the Midlands singer/songwriter have lacked. Now don’t get me wrong. Duffin is too wise an old head to drench Rob’s gutsy compositions in multi-track over-production. So here there is a nice organic vibe to the whole proceedings. But the addition of a tasty Hammond on the opener «Dungeon Ghyl» and a delicious bass riff on «Blue Jeans» set up Rob’s neat, incisive compositions nicely while his rough textured voice has never sounded better. My faves are the lilting mid-tempo «Christian’s Brother» while his subdued acoustic rendition of «Carry Me Home», the After The Fire oldie, shows what a great song it is. Can’t wait to hear Rob sing it in concert when he fronts ATF. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, April 2009]

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CD tracklist:

01. Dungeon Ghyl – 4:04
02. Blue Jeans – 2:45
03. Christian’s Brother – 3:33
04. I Will Climb – 3:51
05. David’s Song – 3:37
06. Friend of God – 4:16
07. You – 4:08
08. Not On Your Own – 3:34
09. Roger Daltrey – 3:33
10. Carry Me Home – 3:44

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