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Beans On Toast - Rolling Up the Hill

Review by Luke Beardsworth

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Rolling Up The Hill, the new Beans on Toast album, is his most creative record to date and it's an album all about friendship, travel and art. It's also about drinking, protesting and growing older in these strange modern times. His seventh studio album in the same amount of years will be released as usual on Xtra Mile Recordings. It was recorded this August in Kansas with husband and wife country duo Truckstop Honeymoon. Beans met the duo at Larmer Tree festival last year, and after hanging out and playing some shows with them in New Orleans they hatched a plan to go to The Ninth Ward Picking Parlour in Lawrence, Kanas to make an album together. The duo brings together double bass, mandolin and finger picking sounds to Beans on Toast unique art of songwriting. Of course though, they were still joined by long-term partner in crime Bobby Banjo, on harp and banjo. Throw in a couple of Kansas players dropping in some horns and some drums and you've got a Beans on Toast album that is fresh, fun and exciting whilst at the same time not losing any of Beans on Toast's original cheap and easy English attitude that has got him to where he is today.
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