Looking for some plain, simple honesty? This latest record from Norway-based singer-songwriter will certainly tick the right boxes. It is a collection for our times, capturing musical vignettes on complex subjects, without shrinking away from any of the real issues.
The artist Ledfoot is Tim Scott McConnell, an American singer-songwriter who moved to Norway thirty years ago. Famously, Bruce Springsteen recorded one of his songs, ‘High Hopes’, in 1996 as a B-side to a single, then used it as the title track of his 2014 album. Ledfoot has been described as gothic blues and has been likened to Nick Cave, although with his treacly, almost gruff vocals, he borders more on Tom Waits than Cave. He growls his way through ten cuts for…