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On Grace & Dignity

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  1. Intro
  2. American Airlines
  3. How It Starts
  4. Before We Fell From Grace
  5. Not Even The Rain
  6. Eulogy
  7. Josephine
  8. Vista
  9. Sundown Lake
  10. Beyond Reasonable Doubt

the GOLDEN DREGS

On Grace & Dignity

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From piano-man, bar-band, velvety baritone karaoke-crooner to an all-singing-all-dancing seven piece, all guises of the GOLDEN DREGS serve as a platform for Woods’ unique musical style.

Woods grew up with a keen awareness of that gap between idealism and reality. On Grace & Dignity’s origins lie in winter 2020 when Woods lost his job in lockdown and moved back to his parents’ house. The only work he could get was as a labourer on a poorly run building site on the grimmest outskirts of Truro. “It was such a bleak winter – waist-deep in mud digging holes and rolling out turf on top of building waste, really grim stuff, which became the backdrop to the stories I was trying to write,” he adds, citing Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis and Richard Hugo as influences.


In among the personal reflections on loss of innocence and inferiority, Woods spins subtly interweaving narratives about survival, desperate acts of violence, loss and the limitations of community in the face of rapacious gentrification. Nevertheless, it is, appropriately for an album about home, somewhere you’ll want to spend a while. Life here proceeds at a graceful pace grounded by Woods’s deep voice, which seems to resonate from his feet as he delivers the sort of meticulously written lunar wisdom worthy of Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner, or the tidy yet revelatory koans of Silver Jews’ David Berman.

“There’s different parts of the experience of growing up in Cornwall in there,” he says. “Some of it was from me looking at it when I was down there that winter, and some of it was me harking back to the experience of growing up there. It’s defined by that sense of duality, of coexisting realities,” he explains. “You’re geographically so far away, and it has a strong identity of its own, as well as a different landscape. It’s so rugged and bleak, but beautiful – which is what I really like in music.” the GOLDEN DREGS is the project of Benjamin Woods, songwriter and producer currently residing in South London.