Rev Brown - Psychomachia (1995/2013)

Rev Brown, aka Reverend Brown is a gifted artist in the sense of a life coloured with the blues. From Birmingham in the UK he ventured to the USA finding Greenwich Village artists Luigi Franconi and Marco Petrilli at the Terra Blues Club in Bleaker Street, New York. They joined forces to tour Europe then produced this album. In true blues tradition it all ended in tears and the world of music became that much poorer with the band breaking up. The album cover image is held together with sticky tape and already torn in four directions - a prophetic forecast of things to come. I was privileged to act as European Tour Manager for the boys. Following the demise the Rev wrote to say that we might meet at a bus shelter somewhere along the road. Rev Brown sadly missed musician and songwriting talent.(By Russ Fenton)