{"product_id":"raymond-gwenifer-you-were-never-much-of-a-dancer-new-lp","title":"Raymond, Gwenifer \/ You Were Never Much Of A Dancer – New LP","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew pressing of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWelsh musician Gwenifer Raymond’s debut album from 2018.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3082582395\/size=small\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=0f91ff\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com\/album\/you-never-were-much-of-a-dancer\"\u003eYou Never Were Much Of A Dancer by Gwenifer Raymond\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIn her own words ....\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen I was about eight years old a pretty formative thing happened to me ... my mum bought me a cassette tape of Nirvana’s Nevermind. Being so young I'd had no real interest in music prior to that, but I did have a ‘My First Sony’ cassette player that I used to listen to audiobooks. Anyway, I put the tape in, pressed play, and what I heard blew my little 8 year old mind. I don't know what it was about that wall of sound that so captured me, but I spent many hours hyperactively running around the house with headphones on, volume at full blast, and Nevermind on repeat. It was either for Christmas or my birthday that year, that I asked for a guitar. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eI spent all my teenage years playing either guitar or drums in various punk and rock outfits around the Welsh valleys, but around that time I was also getting seriously into older stuff, Dylan, The Velvet Underground and the like. Through those cheap compilation CDs you could get then, I found that a common influence amongst these guys was pre-war delta and country blues, as well as Appalachian music. Eventually I stumbled upon Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James and Roscoe Holcomb, and they became the holy trinity of musicians I so wanted to able to play like. Eventually, I tracked down a blues man in Cardiff who could teach me and it was in studying these guys that I was introduced to John Fahey and the whole American Primitive thing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"We Are Busy Bodies Records (Canada)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47427407446177,"sku":null,"price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/1427\/files\/gwenaasa.jpg?v=1789509206","url":"https:\/\/store.greennoiserecords.com\/products\/raymond-gwenifer-you-were-never-much-of-a-dancer-new-lp","provider":"Green Noise Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}