Saturday Samples – Alex Legg – Healesville
By jools • Jul 1st, 2006 • Category: Acoustic, Australian, Indie, Music, Saturday Samples
Artist: Alex Legg
Website: www.alexlegg.com/
Album Name: Healesville
Track Name: Healesville
Playback: mp3/flash
Download?: no
It’s Friday night and time to write another review for Saturday Samples. Trolling the web you find things to suit all tastes. Tonight I felt like something a little mellow, a little wistful but also a little fun and I found Alex Legg.
A Scottish born songwriter and singer, cut his teeth around the Scottish folk clubs, playing the Bothy-ballads and fishing songs of North-east Scotland. A seasoned performer based latterly in London, UK, now in Melbourne, Australia. Solo and with his band, The Wild Geese, he has worked just about every Irish pub and club venue in London.
That’s what it says on his website. I just think it’s a pity that all he has put up are a few 60 second snippets. I would like to hear more. Alex has a rough, but not unpleasant voice full of character, aided perhaps by the Scottish national drink?
He has an album “Healesville” available for purchase. It features Phil Crabbe on drums, Carl Stanbridge on double and electric bass, Tim Oliver on keys, programming, Alf Carroll on electric guitar, Alex Legg on acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, harmonica and vocals.
The title track Healesville sucks you in with the real purty guitar and harmonica and Hammond combo. Sweet Mayo, about a place not a condiment, is a little ripe with overblown strings lain just a tad too thickly over guitar and piano. Two more tracks are available to sample – A Passionate Man and the bluesy Medicine Cup.
It seems to me that Alex Legg has played with a lot of people who have played with other people who may or may not have been famous. I’ve been wracking my brain trying to remember where I have seen him perform. I’d certainly like to again. His website seems to be neglected and no gigs are listed. He may be on holidays or perhaps there are just no venues for him to play.
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a graphic designer who used to front a band on vocals and bass. All evidence of which have mercifully been obliterated or otherwise lost.
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