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Boston based troubadour Bob Bradshaw to release concept album Queen of the West September 27
Boston, MA (July 8, 2019)–Bob Bradshaw’s new album Queen of The West is a fever dream – thirteen cross-connected songs in which a small cast of characters explore issues of identity, struggle with loss, and – as in all the best westerns – seek redemption. The “Queen of The West” herself – Ruby Black – is both a gun-toting femme fatale and an anguished mother pleading with the saints for the life of her son.
There’s heartache and humor aplenty in these cinematic songs with their allusions to western notions of the outlaw, and the quest for faith through religion. Mining parallels between the west of Bradshaw’s native Ireland, and the frontiers of the American west, Queen of The West is, at its core, a concept album but it is a concept that sneaks up on listeners as the scenes unfold. Even though the songs are told through the same characters, each stand-alone story becomes a piece of a quilt which, stitched together, tells a broader narrative.
With the warm timbre of his voice – and the rootsy pedal-steel, fiddle and guitar-twang instrumentation – the songs on Queen of The West are such richly textured Americana you’d suspect Bradshaw hails from Austin, not Cork. For his fourth album of original songs since earning a degree from the Berklee School of Music, he has enlisted long-time collaborators Scoop McGuire, Andrew Stern, Andy Santospago and Chad Manning, as well as top artists from his adopted Boston, including Duke Levine, James Rohr, Kris Delmhorst, Dave Westner, Annie Lynch, Britt Connors, Ed Lucie and Mike Connors.
Queen of The West was produced by Bob Bradshaw at Woolly Mammoth Sound and Side Hill Studio, Waltham, MA in late 2018 and early 2019.
For more information please visit www.BobBradshaw.net
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