{"id":26696,"date":"2025-06-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26696"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:03:06","slug":"charlie-harper-harpers-road-death-or-glory-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=26696","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Harper – ‘Harpers Road’ (Death Or Glory Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Showing no signs of slowing down or easing back to retirement, Charlie Harper releases ‘Harpers Road’, an acoustic saunter down a leisurely road of traditional covers and Subs classics done to a very different beat indeed. Sure we’ve had an acoustic version of Subs releases previously, but not quite like this. A truly solo album of Charlie doing whatever Charlie wants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Containing fourteen tracks of which over half are reimagined Subs classics from all over the band’s career, tracks like ‘C.I.D’ and ‘Stranglehold’ pepper side one. ‘Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms’ is a campfire hoedown with a very traditional performance. ‘Bottle Of Wine’ is more of the same, complete with fiddle courtesy of Duncan Menzie. Some traditional fuzzed up swampy blues in the shape of ‘Diving Duck Blues’ where Charlie gets to wheeze his harmonica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now Subs fans will have a hoot with these reworkings of ‘C.I.D.’, pretty much faithful to the electric version but the polar opposite., ‘Stranglehold’ is a campfire jam whilst ‘I Live In A Car’ is more a trad blues lick slowed down and knocked out on the porch in downtown Brighton, complete with hilarious ott police sirens for good measure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do like hearing old classics stripped bare, so ‘Tomorrows Girls’, ‘Kill Me’ are interesting skiffle jams not like anything you’ll hear Charlie do with his full electric band howling behind him. It’s great to hear Charlie enjoying himself and doing just what the hell he likes, not feeling he has to dance to anyone’s tune and knock out loud and aggressive punk rock, so songs like ‘Rat Race’ have the drive but with a very different flavour. ‘After Hours’ is a Ukulele ride you never thought you’d hear. My least flavour o music is an instrumental so ‘Ride In The Black Forest’ is next before the record signs off with a penny whistling romp through ‘Wild Rover’ now it might not be a polished Pogues take nor in the same league as a Wolftones but its loose and fun exactly what this album set out to achieve. Different takes and flavours of some well worn songs and a most welcome addition to the Charlie Harper catalogue. Never, ever retire, Charlie, you’re just too good at this to stop. This is a very limited pressing as well so snooze, you’ll probably lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Showing no signs of slowing down or easing back to retirement, Charlie Harper releases ‘Harpers Road’, an acoustic saunter down a leisurely road of traditional covers and Subs classics done to a very different beat indeed. Sure we’ve had an acoustic version of Subs releases previously, but not quite like this. A truly solo album […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[664,4352,145],"class_list":["post-26696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-charlie-harper","tag-death-or-glory","tag-uk-subs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26701,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696\/revisions\/26701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}