Name: You Never Were Much of a Dancer
Brand: Gwenifer Raymond

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TSQ5562

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Limited edition

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2018-06-29

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0856225005562

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Gwenifer Raymond

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Folk

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Tompkins Square

The first full-length by the Welsh multi-instrumentalist who now resides in Brighton. Influences include American primitive, pre-war delta and country blues and Appalachian music. Raymond began playing guitar at the age of eight. Tompkins Square released her debut 7" on Record Store Day. Early praise via The Wire, Mojo, and many more. In her own words : When I was about eight years old a pretty formative thing happened to me ... my mum bought me a cassette tape of Nirvana’s <i>Nevermind</i>. It was either for Christmas or my birthday that year, that I asked for a guitar. I spent all my teenage years playing either guitar or drums in various punk and rock outfits around the Welsh valleys, but around that time I was also getting seriously into older stuff, Dylan, The Velvet Underground and the like. Through those cheap compilation CDs you could get then, I found that a common influence amongst these guys was pre-war delta and country blues, as well as Appalachian music. Eventually I stumbled upon Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and Roscoe Holcomb, and they became the holy trinity of musicians I so wanted to able to play like. Eventually, I tracked down a blues man in Cardiff who could teach me and it was in studying these guys that I was introduced to John Fahey and the whole American Primitive thing. American Primitive was the first time it had occurred to me that you didn’t really need anything more than one solo instrument to fully express yourself, especially when those feelings and moods refuse to be articulated in words, sometimes it's a mystery to yourself what it is you’re expressing. I still play in hard rock and punk bands and love to wail and hit my guitar with a complete lack of any subtlety or nuance, but in the end I think that all these things are really part of a circle, feeding back into itself. It’s all just a lineup of strange mutations."

You Never Were Much of a Dancer

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