Welsh musician Richard Thomas put together a collection of his writings for his one-man band Mint Biscuit, with some of his poetry thrown in for good measure. It is a big one - 328 pages, so Songs & Poems will be keeping the reader entertained for quite some time. He also assembled another "best of" album, The Mintiest, which contains 83 (!) tracks in alphabetical order of the home made guitar excursions he recorded over the years. That rather unusual bit of sequencing was made by mistake, but it makes for an oddball, hopscotch kind of listening, with plenty of happy accidents along the way.
For those who are not familiar with his music, a handy list of his influences can be found in the book: Beatles, Pink Floyd, Cream, Beach Boys, Simon & Garfunkel, Kinks, Kingsmen, Wings, Animals, Doors, Taste, The Jam, Canned Heat, REM, Dinosaur Jr, Nirvana, Kings Of Leon, Foo Fighters, Rage Against The Machine, Pearl Jam, Reef, Feeder, Spin Doctors, Deep Blue Something, Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Elbow, James, Stone Roses, Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, Wilfred Owen, Horace Andy, Max Bygraves, Phil Collins, Paul Weller, Kate Bush, Shirley Bassey, Tamsin West, Alison Moyet, Kelis, Prodigy.
The book is available here (hard & softcover) and here (digital, hard & softcover). Buy the album from his website.
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