'After the demise of his previous band, Snug, British songwriter Ed Harcourt launched a short-lived career as a chef while continuing to write new material. A fan of Tom Waits and Jeff Buckley, he quickly abandoned the kitchen in favor of a solo songwriting career, progressing from bass guitar ? his chief instrument with Snug ? to a number of other instruments, including the piano, guitar, banjo, and drums. Harcourt proved to be a prolific, genre-hopping musician, and his marriage of dreamland Americana a...   [ read more ]

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Harcourt's potential to make a record like this has always been there, brooding beautifully through every song he's ever written. But with The Beautiful Lie, there's a certain alchemy at play. Maybe it's the weight of experience Ed's had, or the years he's spent crafting songs finally coming together to create something incredibly special. His new album is confident, expressive and moving, wide-eyed, big-hearted and hot-blooded, with a musical ambition that dazzles you. It's an album he's grown up with, an...   [ read more ]

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2007 Anthology Drawn from the Singer/Songwriter's Solo Albums on the Heavenly Label Covers the Highlights from "Maplewood" to "The Beautiful Lie" and Includes a Couple of Previously Unreleased Songs!

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