Travelling troubadour, tremendous voice, fine friend.
America's Sean Rowe is the archetypical fearless 'travelling troubadour'. He travelled The States extensively as such, in the wake of previous CD 'The salesman and the shark'. What's more: he mainly did 'living-room concerts'. Or, in his own words: 'It’s like I’m some kind of a bearded salesman… Going door to door but instead of vacuum cleaners I’m selling all these feelings that come with the songs.'
Someone you really need to experience up close, in the ABClub, for example. Especially now that his latest CD is out: 'Madman', on the Epitaph/Anti label (and we'll quickly also mention that he was apparently introduced there by his mate Tom Waits.)
There's this too, apparently from The Wall Street Journal: 'the ecstatic intensity of late-'60s Van Morrison and stark subtlety of late-era Johnny Cash... It is soul music in the purest and most literal sense, hypnotic rhythms, warmly distorted guitars and Rowe’s incredible voice...'