Mansel Davies – Breaking Bread

Here's a recent interview about the album by BGFM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6soX8KIPI8

Welsh Connections
18 April at 20:48 ·
Music Review by John Eliot
Artist: Mansel Davies
Album: 'Breaking Bread'
I think this may be the oldest person I’ve ever heard on record, 96 years! Come to think of it though, Dylan is catching him up at 82 years. I know the great John Lee Hooker was still making music in his eighties.
No, Mansel Davies is not 96. His Dad is, and he begins this great CD from Mansel. I’m not going to say the cd is worth getting just for Mansel’s Dad, the CD is just worth getting. I know the kind of guy Mansel is. A bit like me. I didn’t really take writing poetry seriously until I was in my late fifties and then became published when I was 62. In this CD, Breaking Bread, the listener hears experience. Not only experience of life, but also in the quality of music. Sounds a bit corny, but excellent lyrics and melody. The quality of musicianship, there is so much talent out there. It is no wonder that only a few seem to make it very big, too much competition.
In the notes Mansel also attached he says that he can be found playing in different venues, usually playing well-known covers. Mansel, I’m telling you. Forget the audience and what they want, all of these songs are strong enough to perform in your own right. They are excellent and should be heard! Get out there and perform them.