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A great album doesn’t have to make a grand political statement or adhere to some lofty concept. Sometimes a great album is nothing more than a collection of well-written and beautifully produced songs.
Few musicians know this better than David Gray. In a career spanning over three decades, the journeyman U.K. singer-songwriter has quietly crafted one understated masterwork after another (the most recent,
Skellig, arrived in February). Gray’s magnum opus and most beloved work, however, remains 1998’s
White Ladder.
Though the record Gray’s fourth failed to chart in Britain at first, things changed when a young upstart named Dave Matthews released it stateside on his ATO label two years later. Gray rocketed to global superstardom overnight, and