Isle Of White lone wolf Angelina has found her own voice on her second album Last Cigarette. There’s still a thread to her country-blues-folk heroes (Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Blind Willie Johnson, Charley Patton) and her Vagabond Saint debut, but with a new confidence she ramped up her own band of outlaws (including Little Barrie on guitar) in smokey late-night recording sessions in a golden era studio on the edge of Queen Victoria’s IoW estate.
A much tougher proposition – one that fizzes with anger and ferocity – her voodoo blues whipping up a hurricane in a Dustbowl of soul.
Written in an art gallery whilst viewing an exhibition of night paintings by Paul Benny. I saw the image rather like a christ type figure he was wearing a crown of 7 candles which dripped down his back, I felt his pain torture. A life of rotting hell. The painting is a study of a coal miner titled “deep mining project” 2012
Last Cigarette is out on 13 September. Pre-Order via https://wonderfulsound.bandcamp.com/album/last-cigarette
Photo Credit: Julien Bourgeois