Name: Poor Man's Heaven
Brand: Seth Lakeman

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Bonus disc: No

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cdrel18

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2008-06-30

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Seth Lakeman

Genre GB

Folk

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seth lakeman's fourth album, 'poor man's heaven' (not to be confused with the ep of the same name released in autumn 2007), is finally released. taking over 10 months to finalise, many of the tracks to be on the album have been part of lakeman's live set since the second half of 2006, the initial tracks performed being 'poor man's heaven' and 'race to be king', but this expanded towards the end of the tour, with new tracks continuing to be previewed throughout 2007 and into 2008. the album has a rockier sound than his earlier, arguably more straightforwardly acoustic folk, material. as with much of his music, the theme of songs dealing with darker topics and real-life incidents continues on this album. lakeman describes 'haunt you' (written with steve knightley) as being 'probably the darkest material either of us have ever written'. there is also a strong, though not exclusive, theme of songs about seafaring and the coast, again continuing a trend from much of his earlier material. 'solomon browne' for example, another key track, is about the penlee lifeboat disaster in 1981 in which 16 people lost their lives.

Poor Man's Heaven

Music GB