Chris Wilson - Live At The Continental (Aurora Records 1994, re-issued 2007)

Chris Wilson is an Australian blues artist with an amazingly soulful and powerful voice. This is a live album that was recorded in 1994 at the much venerated, and sorely missed, Continental Cafe in Melbourne, and serves to showcase not only Wilson's amazing voice, but also his strength as a songwriter.
I remember hearing the album's opening track, You Will Surely Love Again, in early 1996, and being brought to tears by the raw emotion it conveyed. Wilson's voice rides seemlessly above the quietly strummed guitar of Shane O'Mara - who is something of an unsung legend in the Australian music scene, while the forlorn sound of Wilson's harmonica late in the the song could break even the hardest of hearts.
You Will Surely Love Again is immediately followed by Wolves, another tour-de-force which sees Wilson's voice soar as he impines "Won't you come on home?" Face In The Mirror follows, a soulful number in which the song's protagonist, broken-hearted, snorting a line off a mirror, tries to convince himself that "the face in the mirror tells me that I'm doing fine."
These are simply the first three songs on the album, with six more of equal standard that follow. Live At The Continental is a brilliant red wine album; an album perfect for long winter nights; an album that you will want to curl up on the bean bag with. Chris Wilson is a huge talent as a singer, songwriter and harmonica player - and this album is a testament to that talent. The re-issued version of the album contains the original nine song album, plus an extra disc of songs recorded on the same night. So soulful, so good.

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