Well sir, you smashed this challenge - and ended up with a stunning unplugged album. It's made me want to hear some of your established tracks with similar stripped-down arrangements, leading the listener to concentrate on the sheer artistry of your words and astonishingly soulful vocal. Next challenge for you is the 24 hours album. 24 minutes of original music in 24 hours. I believe it originated on alonetone. Off you go.

Glad you didn't bin it! Liking the driving feel - immediately hooky also.

A sweet almost-lullaby - glad this one found a home in your February. So very pretty.

Really love this melody and the breezy feel. Some gorgeous little acoustic guitar runs in there too.

Great song writing - loving the sentiment and your tender vox here. I love it when the FAWM and RPM parameters draw out his kind of track, any more of an arrangement would detract from the message - IMHO.

Woohoo! Logged in and back from Brighton. <3 Can now fave this utter classic.

Hauntingly sad and beautiful

Great tune Andrew. we held back on a few old ideas too. i'm glad you put it out there

Hehehe... there's LOTS of youthful angst is these Songs from the Shoebox... possibly an embarrassing amount... You wait... let's see if I'm brave enough to record the ones from 1978/9!!!

That's rather wonderful ...... a bit of youthful angst ??

You've been a writer / poet for so many years!!! How delightful to put these songs out. I'm glad you found the shoe box.

Another beautiful piece of storytelling through haunting voice and gentle music

You sing these words perfectly … I am just in awe of your story telling

So lyrical

Intrigued … who is this written for? Whoever it is is a lucky person … love this

I saw your comments on my site. Thanks. It sounds like you’ve got this recording process figured out. I’m still learning as I go. Thank God for YouTube. 😎

Another little gem ......

This is kick-ass! You have a great voice and I love your guitar playing. When you have great ingredients like that, you don’t need much more than good material, of which there is plenty here! I am very inspired listening to this. I appreciate you sharing it and I look forward to delving deeper -bjk

Good stuff. I'm always amazed at how versatile you are.

That's a good song. I like the "acoustic demo," but do you also envision this as a rocker (2 guitars, bass, and drums)? I think it'd kill.

This one kind of sneaks up on me. First listen didn't grab me a lot - nice guitars and all, but... Second listen, I was right there. Nice groove and cool song on top of it.

Oh yeah, count me in on the chorus of approval for this voice... and on the "can we have more please?" :-)

At the moment, Andrew's wife is lying on the sofa, eating a banana and prevaricating over whether she actually knows someone called Roger or not...

Er... yours, not mine that is!! lol

Well, don't know what the earlier version sounded like, but this sounds mighty fine. Really nice song, as well. I don't write enough songs about my wife! (I'm kind of assuming that's who it's about)

Oh this is just fabulous. Loved it, every second of it. I've just found someone else to follow.

Yeah, I can here all sorts of progression going on in these tracks. But even here you can tell you've got the ears. You've had a big effect on me the last few days - not sure what I'm recording next, but I can tell you the acoustic is sat on it's stand looking worried now!! lol

Nice one, very punchy.

I was listening to the first wondering how you were going to get guitar and bass into it... and there they were :-) Huge sound, works really well. Vocals get a bit lost in it for my money - but I was listening to the guitars by then!!

Woo... running out of superlatives to use here. Haven't heard a track I didn't like yet.

Very nice take on this one.

Yep one of my favourites too

I just KNEW you must have done this one at some point :-) Lovely version

Hey here's another one! Cool track. Thoroughly enjoyed listening to the new ones.

That's a MIGHTY bass sound. A fine set of new songs.

Yep :-)

I love the riff in the middle. Ah, it comes back at the end :-)

That was a surprise, for two reasons: 1) I came in expecting some rocking. 2) I really liked it! Nice one

Apparently I'm a recent listener to this - I don't remember!! I'm sure I would've remembered this. Lovely sound. Those keys are fabulous. I just shut my eyes and let it roll. I love how he was so into it that he kept playing bass and keys even after the track had finished. And a cool touch to leave it on. Nice work guys.

Back for another listen. I was wondering whether the shine would have worn off after a few days... NAH! It's still wonderful :-)