The Debra Haul -The Boy Who Didn't Fall

 

2023 Charity Shop Purchases #32 - JJ Gilmour - The Boy Who Didn't Fall

I think that it is fair to say that this is probably the most obscure CD within the Debra Haul

JJ Gilmour is best known as a member of the Scottish band The Silencers who have briefly featured on these pages before here  After seven years as part of the band he left to pursue a solo career. He was also briefly the frontman of boyband East 17 for a few months in 1996

From 2009 on the P.A.L. label The Boy Who Didn't Fall was his second solo album and was recorded with the team behind Wet Wet Wet's biggest hits. After leaving the band he was living and working in Jersey where he befriended golfer Ian Woosnam who helped to fund his solo career He also wrote a musical Dancing Shoes based of the life of the great footballer George Best.

Please don't let the references to East 17 and Wet Wet Wet (or Ian Woosnam for that matter) put you off as this is in fact a perfectly pleasant folky singer-songwriter album. It puts me in mind a little bit of Boo Hewerdine which let's face it is no bad thing

I think that the title song may well be autobiographical.

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JJ Gilmour - The Boy Who Didn't Fall