There is a review of the Wonder Songs album on the FATEA website
https://www.fatea-records.co.uk/magazine/news/DrivingTest28/
The Legendary Ten Seconds - Wonder Songs ***
His 28th album, another delve into (mostly) Tudor period history from Ian Churchward and friends, set to courtly folk styled melodies arranged with electric guitars, drum and keys, this collection takes in tales of 'Berry Pomeroy Castle' in Devon, Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, Richard III ('Not By Divine Intervention'), Elizabeth I ('The Daughter Of Ann Boleyn') and pretender to the crown Perkin Warbeck ('Gates of Exeter Revisited'). These are also punctuated with an instrumental ('Eastern Promise'), a musing on ageing and obsolescence ('Fast Forward'), an ode to 'Home', a woman in white ghost story (the twangy 'In A Doll's House') and a musical retelling of Francis Flagg's 1927 tale of a visit from the future 'The Machine Man Of Ardathia'. Always worth a listen. MD
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