Album Review: Hudson Taylor Go From Bear Creek To Dame Street
When you are young, you see the streets more than your bedroom. The outside world is like a seductive siren calling to live her up. Hudson Taylor’s From Bear Creek To Dame Street (FBCTDS) sings for those that heed the call.
Acoustically, From Bear Creek To Dame Street feels like you are steam rolling through concrete and cobblestone. No matter what pace, it makes you feel like it is “Time to go!” and life is outside waiting for you in a cab to the pub. Hudson Taylor is an Irish sibling-duo, Alfie and Harry, of which they both sing to the many nights of fun and loss, and the days they have spent waiting and thinking upon such nights. In perspective, the nighttime is the most important time of a person’s life. While we spend our 9-5 studying or work for others, it is in late afternoons and starry skies when we, finally, make our own decisions. Yet, the role of your life’s “boss” is never easy.
Hudson Taylor – Chasing Rubies
“World Without You,” “Chasing Rubies,” “Battles,” “One In A Million” are like the folk pop anthems to being young and simply deciding. I know that does not seem like the most exciting thing, “deciding,” but there is a beauty to every relationship and dream you make because it you writing a page in your life’s novella. Yet, when the brothers sing they do not feel like two, distinct beings harmonizing to the booming highs and suffering lows. They become one, and it is beautiful and uproarious. They are the natural cheer/choir you hear when life seems brimming with hope under streetlight cafe.
Hudson Taylor – Battles
Perhaps the exhilaration on From Bear Creek To Dame Street, is that it was recorded both live and in studio. Live tracks like, “Don’t Know Why,” carry the pureness of the brothers as performers and presenters of narratives; hearing the audience’s cheers in the backdrop. Meanwhile, recorded songs like, “You Don’t Wanna Know” carry the clear, warping nature of their folk lyrics; allowing Hudson Taylor to bask in the potency of their harmonized conquests of life. For More Information On Hudson Taylor And To Buy From Bear Creek To Dame Street on September 21 Click Here.
