Bill Nelson - Blue Moons and Laughing Guitars (1992)

Review 1 from Amazon.co.uk:

Continuing his journey back to Guitarville, Bill Nelson just about hits the mark with this one. There's the usual self-penned liner notes about these being 'whimsically fragile flowers' or whatever, but it wouldn't be the full Nelsonian experience without that. The material is robustly Nelson, lots of chiming guitar, insistent beats, and lyrics reflecting on Bill's current interest.... I think it was Gnosticism at the time. Not as melodically inspired as 'Luminous' or the breathtaking 'Chimera', it nonetheless is vastly superior to the stuff produced by his contemporaries (if indeed they are still producing stuff), and vital and fresh compared to the work of much younger artists. As usual on a Nelson album, there's at least one little masterpiece, this being the gorgeous 'Wings and everything'. Whichever woman inspired it, she must have been really something..... a soaring over-wrought piece of classic Bill. Nelson's defining charateristic is his immense musical curiousness, always hitched to a rigorous sense of melody, and 'Blue Moons and Laughing Guitars', whilst far from his best, continues in the noble tradition of the Greatest Living Yorkshireman.



Tracklisting:
1. Ancient Guitars (2:04)
2. Girl From Another Planet (2:30)
3. Spinnin' Around (4:12)
4. Shaker (2:35)
5. God Man Slain (4:07)
6. The Dead We Wake With Upstairs Drums (3:22)
7. New Moon Rising (4:02)
8. The Glory Days (3:58)
9. Wishes (2:22)
10. Angel In My System (4:29)
11. Wings And Everything (4:10)
12. Boat To Forever (3:29)
13. The Invisible Man And The Unforgetable Girl (3:46)
14. So It Goes (3:50)
15. Fires In The Sky (4:04)
16. Dream Ships Set Sail (3:48)

Total Time: 56:49

Line-Up:
- Bill Nelson / All Instruments and Vocals