Artist: Billy Jenkins

Date of Release: 01/01/1994

Catalogue no: BDV 9401

Label: Babel

Price: £12

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The Bath Literature Festival has commissioned a number of poems by various writers, such as Hugh Lupton, Andrew Davies, Rupert Loydell, Ivor Cutler, Alexis Likiard, Mick Gower, Laurence Staig, to be performed in conjunction with the music. The world premiere performance of this collaboration was given at the Bath Literature Festival on 3rd March 1995 during a tour which has also included Cardiff, Exeter, Leeds and Salzburg. The poems have been published by Stride Publications.It was again performed at the UK Year of Literature and Writing at Swansea in April 1995, and was the subject of an extensive feature on BBC Radio 2's Arts Programme.

Reviews

01/01/1994 TOP magazine

'Has to be one of the top ten records of 1994' Neville Hadsley,

01/01/1994 Ben Watson, Rubberneck magazine

'At first Entertainment USA is pleasant but curiously flat, pattering on with its basic formats, almost like a Hank Crawford of Boots Randolph album. However, Jenkins injects his anglo-MOR with two lethal spikes: absolutely bravura guitar, and a highly developed awareness of the socio-politico implications of schlock. You can sit around and ponder these musings on Reagan, Manson, Elvis, etc. for hours. In other words, Jenkins has cunningly confected the ideal domestic soundtrack: Country enough to make the average ambient snob turn purple, it's also great dinner-party/cannabis music - just as everyone's starting to get out of it, bizarre insights and brilliant guitar vault out of the subliminal. Sublime.'

01/01/1994 Martin Longley, Birmingham What's On

'Highly wreckommended!'