Adamson Reels in The Years CUT TO BLACK - BARRY ADAMSON Album Review by Spencer Ide Barry Adamson has found his voice and what a voice! His latest album is a sumptuous collection of image-driven, powerful, self-penned songs, with two co-written by Siena Barnes. A show-reel from an eclectic talent, revealing the too rarely-heard vocal talents of an accomplished musician and composer. Every track on this album projects series of strong visual images, not least in the opener The Last Words of Sam Cooke, which has a little nod in the title (perhaps) to Haydn’s ‘Last Seven Words of Christ’. This first track is a dramatic script about the demise of one of the greatest song writers, who died in messy circumstances in 1964 at the Hacienda Motel, Los Angeles. Substance abuse, three gunshots to the chest, accusations of attempted rape and threatening behaviour did little for Cooke’s reputation, at a time when his songs were adding a new dimen...