He was bringing all the flowers

It's been more than 30 years since rock music was still important and had great relevance. Artists were not pop bunnies who sang with computer voices, but stars with guitars, poets, explainers of the world.

We look back in a series. Today to the Englishwoman Anne Clark and her album “Psychometry”. A masterpiece in which, as always, the artist didn't sing a single word.

In the booklet, Larry Barrett politely thanked Chris Eckmann and Carla Torgerson from the Walkabouts, a band with a big name at the time - and that's no coincidence. Barrett's "Flowers", recorded more than 30 years ago in just one week in Seattle's "Inside" studio, sounds like a light edition of the Walkabouts, on whose last album Barrett played.

In the era of grunge rock, the alternative country star, who died in 2014, relied primarily on acoustic instruments. The incorrigible old hippie Barrett, together with bassist Lisa King, continued the best traditions of American singer/songwriters: "Flowers" bundles eleven beautiful, quiet ballads into a convincing record full of quiet melancholy that has survived the times unscathed ever since...

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