A couple of years ago, playing a house concert in High Wycombe, Andy White was approached by an old friend, vainly seeking a recording that sounded like that very performance — in other words, an unadorned one-take solo run-through of White’s extensive songbook. Finding nothing fitting the bill, his friend booked him into Abbey Road Studios.
This is how White’s album came to be made in the room used by The Beatles — this friend, John Leckie, started his career there as a tape op on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass and John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band before going on to produce The Stone Roses, Radiohead and Baaba Maal, plus a 2023 collaborative record between White and Tim Finn.
White’s new album features 20 songs that…