Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - Crooked Calypso (2017)

Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott third album ‘Crooked Calypso’ boasts all the hallmarks of Heaton’s peerless songwriting: songs buoyant with melody, and redolent with biting wit, but also real emotion. Opening track ‘I Gotta Praise’, a euphoric secular Gospel anthem, raises the roof and opens the record in style. ‘The Lord Is A White Con’, meanwhile, considers religion as an exploitative tool of empire builders, while ‘She Got The Garden’ is the wittiest divorce song since ‘D-I-V-O-R-C-E’. And then there is ‘Blackwater Banks’, a gorgeous Irish waltz that the Dubliners would be proud to call their own.

Tracklist:

01. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - I Gotta Praise
02. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - He Wants To
03. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - If I May
04. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - She Got The Garden
05. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - People Like Us
06. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - Blackwater Banks
07. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - The Lord Is A White Con
08. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - Silence Is
09. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - Love Makes You Happy
10. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - The Fat Man
11. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - Your Bit Of Stuff
12. Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - He Can't Marry Her