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From a certain perspective, blues is a dead language, for it no longer has any native speakers. There are those who pursue it in an almost academic fashion preservationists and re-enactors but almost every modern blues performer is aware they are performing with a tradition, cognizant of the genre’s history and heroes.
During seven weeks at Sawmills Studio on the River Fowey in Golant, Cornwall, four young men in the band Verve (singer Richard Ashcroft and guitarist Nick McCabe were only 21 years old) recorded their debut album with producer John Leckie, who had previously worked as an audio engineer for Pink Floyd in the 1970s. These seven weeks of recording resulted in 10 tracks that are deeply numinous and often oceanic.