Robert Francis: Before Nightfall | CD review

(Atlantic)His father, according to Francis's website, is the "eccentric owner of one of the largest collections of sheet music in the US", while his mother grew up one of nine sisters in a tiny, poor Mexican town. Ry Cooder gave him his first guitar when he was nine, and songwriting is "a way to keep me from completely losing my mind". Why, then, does his second album sound like the work of every American soft rock act that crops up on Later ... With Jools Holland, squeezed between the latest in...

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