Record Review: Song for a Friend and Makes Me Think of Home by Ray Wilson
It is rare for an artist to release two studio albums in the same year, something that would normally leave them short of material, but Ray Wilson has done exactly that in 2016. July saw the appearance of
Song for a Friend, followed in October by
Makes Me Think of Home, meaning he has put out no fewer than twenty new songs in just a few months. Although these two albums are quite different in feel and were released separately, Wilson had originally intended them to form a double album (provisionally titled
Backseat Drivers) and I bought them both at the same time so to me it makes sense to review them together.