After 12 years and four albums with UK Americana band Hatful of Rain, Phil Jones releases his first ever solo recordings. 50 years of playing music - from the working men’s clubs of South Wales to concert and festival stages across the country, this record is Phil’s expression of a lifetimes work listening too, writing and performing the music he loves.

The album has allowed Phil to follow his nose and create a record of musical diversity – from a long-form folk ballad of a man’s fascination of the sea which leads to him nearly losing everything St Peter’s Thumb, to Neil Young circa “Harvest” New Homes, through old time banjo and fiddle Gathering Wood/Forever Fine, taking in a folk tale of the women who worked on wartime canal boats Idle Women and western style swing Hurt People, Hurt People. Expect steel guitars, banjos and harmonicas, piano and organ.

Phil’s heartfelt lyrics arise from a lifetime listening to the greats and expressing a half century of life experience. Improperly Located tells the story of a man newly estranged from his children, When Times Were Hard and Things Were Better rages against nostalgia and Close completes the collection with a story of two people who should have connected but didn’t.