Reviewed by Steven Bridge

Sounding like a cross between Mark Knopfler and Chris Rea, Rob Ash is a singer/songwriter who has been part of the Christian music scene since the '80s. Unless you can appreciate great British '80s music, you've been lost in translation with those comparisons! Bryn Haworth also comes to mind. Rob Ash is knock, knock, knocking on 60! So are Macca and Jagger, moreso! Why I haven't heard of Rob is my loss. In fact, it is daylight robbery. This man has produced such a well crafted album of songs he should be heralded from the mountain tops of Wales where he heralds from. 'Neon Textures' is a project he recorded at home but used the Chapel Lane studios in Hereford for overdubs. Tony Cummings states that, "Ash is one of the great unheralded heroes of the British Christian music scene. Down the years his exemplary guitar licks have added fire to many an artist's work while his own solo albums show him to be one of Christendom's finest blues-tinged rockers." High praise indeed. With songs covering a wide spectrum of subjects ranging from the Holocaust with "Yad Vashem", Christmas with "What Happened To Christmas?", and the American Civil Rights Movement with "Rosa Parks", this collection is a superb selection of songs.

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