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Jon Hughes – Voices From A Broken Window

The tune of the Irish singer-songwriter has been well and tritely versed, and strummed out on Glen Hansard's knackered acoustic guitar with a hole in the body and minus a string. Yet, can Jon Hughes manage to deliver an album worthy of counting him amongst the abundance of merits attributed to Galway (The Saw Doctors, proximity to the Aran Islands, a Filipino restaurant), with his sophomore effort Voices From A Broken Window ? According to his biography, "Hughes' voice has been compared to Cat Stevens and Nils Lofgren of the E Street Band", yet on first [...]