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The R.G. Morrison - Diamond Valley

Review by Jon Falcone

The gentle rivers of South West England infiltrate the psyche as poignantly as the green harmonies of Laurel Canyon. »

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'Diamond Valley' is a ten track album that falls somewhere around the alt country genre. Inspired like so many of their generation by Laurel Canyon, The RG Morrison produce rich, melancholy country rock and roll whilst managing to avoid the common pitfalls, like American accents from English tongues, hackneyed instrumentation and borrowed philosophies. The album will doubtless draw comparisons to parts of Neil Young's catalogue (for the guitar wig outs and 'Harvest'-esq drums if nothing else) and again to a Whiskeytown period Ryan Adams, but it's those odd minutes and off-kilter instrumentations and arrangements that will raise more eyebrows and moves 'Diamond Valley' out of the Americana genre.
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