Ethan Johns' second album, released in 2014. If you are familiar with Ethan Johns' other work as a solo artist, you'll find this album contains music that is very 'familiar' from the outset. Mostly acoustic guitars with percussion and strings backing, with a preference for clear / sharp 'live' ticks (so a bit of echo on the vocals, sounds of fingers sliding on strings on the fretboard etc.). The style is like a soft version of Richard Thompson's acoustic style, overlaid with the close-picked guitar work of someone like Bruce Cockburn. If you like his stuff, you'll like this one too. The album is notionally a 'themed' release (i.e. a bit prog-rock) - in his own words - 'The stories all spring from the song “The Lo Down Ballad of James Younger”. It’s about the choices we make as individuals in life, and the effects that those things can have on us. It’s life on a knife edge. It’s about consequences; it’s about balancing the darkness and light in life that’s present in all of us; and trying to make the right choices at the right time.'. But in reality it is just a collection of standard acoustic folk tunes - and none the worse for that. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.