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In April Came the Dawning of the Red Suns

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April Lawton was a very schooled guitarist. Her right hand picking technique was impeccable. She is superb on electric and acoustic playing. This 2nd effort from RAMATAM for me, was all about guitar playing. I did not favor the writing except for April's contributions. She has a wonderful melodic voice and her ballads are in the folk vain. I heard a recording of her from the early 90's and she was light years ahead of her efforts included on this particular title. She never stopped! Her growth as a true musician was endless.

i don't recall caring too much for this lp in general except for the excruciatingly perfect "bounty on my table". kind've reminds me of christine perfect future games/bare trees era fleetwood mac. ethereal and haunting, a true gem.

April Lawton, whoever she was, was simply fantastic. I'm not going to sully her reputation by a gratuitous comparison of her with Fanny's June Millington, but I will say that they were easily the equal of any of their male counterparts in the early seventies. And if you can do the almost-impossible and just tune out (giggle) "multi-instrumentalist" Sullivan's "contributions" to "Red Sun" and just fixate on April Lawton here - wow. She was a wonder. And her "Bounty On My Table" is as great a secular song about her faith as was/is David Gate's "Do You Believe He's Coming" (which was released in Gates' first solo album). No, no flashy "wee-wee-diddly-SQUEECH" "lead guitar" histrionics here, just one very talented Woman's musical statement. Like I said, though, to get the full effect of Ms. Lawton's talent, you HAVE to tune out Tommy Sullivan on this thing - honestly, his stuff sounds like a demo tape for Lynyrd Skynyrd or worse...