Welsh guitarist Richard Thomas keeps it close to home on When The Floodgates Open, an album by his one-man band project Mint Biscuit, featuring songs for his niece (Annabelle's Driving Song), his wife, and people stuck in a dead end job. He sticks to country-tinged rock and blues mostly, his go-to genres for storytelling songs about love, missed opportunities, longing for the long gone days at university, and getting back on his feet again.
The odd one out is a song about a fictional poisonous toad, Arthur, It Is!. Maybe that creature sprang to mind as he remembered watching his town Cockermouth being knee-deep in water in 2009. Thomas once again proofs that he is an avid chronicler, whose prolificness enables him to capture it in words and music.
When The Floodgates Open is a self-released album. Buy it from his website.
Tracks:- Tequila Pina Sunrise
- Somebody, Somewhere
- Cry, Cry, Cry
- Annabelle's Driving Song
- Morning Song
- Slide In Baby
- Washover
- Coated In Mud
- Great Expectations
- Some People, Eh
- Arthur, It Is!
- When The Floodgates Open