Ricky Ross – Trouble Came Looking

Description

Trouble Came Looking is a solo album by the British singer and songwriter Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue fame, released on Edsel Records in April 2013. The album was recorded by Gregor Philip. All songs written by Ricky Ross except track 7 co-written with Craig Smillie.

For his sixth solo release the Deacon Blue frontman offers socially conscious folk to take on the era of austerity and the squeezing of the working classes. The arrangements are accordingly sparse and intimate, often solo guitar or piano, spurning heart-wrenching opulence for sonic solidarity. With song titles such as «Now I Smoke, Like I Used To Pray», Ross sticks very much on the “confessional” side of singer/songwriterdom, though not necessarily confessions of his own life. His work with Deacon Blue right through to today has been shot through with a strong current of sympathy for the downtrodden, never preachy or expository; instead, he relates stories (often confessional) of people in terrible situations, for showing is so much more powerful than telling. Here, as ever, his protests against an unfair and unjust world don’t take the form of blunt rants but of stories, stories of Saracen maids and Dundee boys, stories of taxi drivers and drug addicts, awash in cruel circumstances. But one track in the middle offers hope: «We Shall Overcome The Whole Wide World». The last song builds on that hope with icy, reverberating piano twinkles – signs of change, signs of things to come, harbingers of the disappearance of scarcity, pinpricks of light shining through the darkest night sky. [Oscar Hyde, Cross Rhythms, May 2013]

> iTunes (https://music.apple.com/us/album/trouble-came-looking/1617134020)

CD tracklist:

01. Trouble Came Looking For Me
02. Now I Smoke, Like I Used To Pray
03. Any Drug Will Do
04. The Fear
05. How Will The Heart Survive
06. A Strange And Foreign Land
07. Sang O’ The Saracen Maid
08. We Shall Overcome The Whole Wide World
09. Good Man
10. Nothing More Than Travelling Now
11. Taxi Drivers Ride The Lights
12. Holy Night

Note: CD released in a full colour digipak with 12 page booklet printed with liner notes, lyrics, credits and photographs. Also released as a Limited Edition 180 gram 12-inch vinyl LP (DEMREC472) by Demon Records, pressed on White vinyl.

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