I have a lot of records by William Elliott Whitmore and they're all excellent. He has a fantastic voice and both times I've seen him play live were incredible and are some very fond memories of mine. Strictly speaking, this record is a bit redundant as each of the three songs appears in some form on another album - Does Me No Good on Hymns For the Hopeless and The Day the End Finally Came and The Buzzards Won't Cry on Ashes to Dust (although these are different recordings, the latter of which was recorded by John Congleton of The Paper Chase, another favourite of mine).
I received this 7" as a Christmas present along with the Hymns LP from my parents; all three are lovely songs, so there's no harm in having different versions of them. The Day the End Finally Came is rounded out by some extra musicians and The Buzzards Won't Cry has a more country feel to it. It's also worth pointing what an incredibly bleak title for a song The Day the End Finally Came is. Will Whitmore, unsurprisingly, is the man to do such a title justice.
Format: 7"
Tracks: 2
Cost: free, new
Bought: Gift
When: 25/12/12
Colour: Black
Etching: none
mp3s: no
