Proper Fabian Holland CD Folk

Fabian seems to have sprung fully fledged from nowhere though he's been playing music and performing live since a youngster. He grew up in an artistic household where performance and artistic expression was part of everyday life, listening to blues guys such as Sonny Boy Williamson and Muddy Waters. His early influences (drawn from his father's record collection) were Muddy Waters, R.L Burnside, Son House, Howlin Wolf, Chuck Berry and Skip James (the latter's classic 'Hard Times Killing Floor Blues' is rendered subtly and hauntingly on Fabian's début album).

His eponymously titled, début album 'Fabian Holland' is produced by Mark Hutchinson (who also produced recent albums for the likes of Blair Dunlop, Walsh and Pound, Spiers and Boden, and the Albion Christmas Band).

"I think Mark and I both agreed from the start that simplicity would be the key to this album," says Fabian "with guitar and vocals being the main focus. We decided on a concise album and picked the tracks carefully. Most of my songs are stories influenced by people I've met along the years and I've travelled about a bit so I've met all sorts of interesting people.

There are two traditional tracks in the album, 'Banks Of The Dee' and 'Dr Price'. These are not widely known trad songs; I like that because it offers people something they may not have heard before.

Through the whole album the guitar and vocals were recorded at the same time and I think this produces a very real and immediate sound, rather than something contrived through studio trickery."

TRACK LISTING — DISC 1

- The Landlord's Daughter
- Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
- Little Boy Jonny
- Like Father Like Son
- Dr Price
- Home
- Charlie
- Mad Eric
- Banks of the Dee