18 amazing folk-punk originals plus a powerful cover of Sam Cooke’s A Change Is Gonna Come. Includes the seminal I’m A Jew.
Most of the songs are under three minutes the notable exception being the eponymous The Long Decline which is quite frankly nearly 7 minutes of sheer brilliance.
It starts out like a folk ballad full of mandolins and acoustic guitars until the violinist from hell turns up and the song is transformed into something akin to the first Velvet Underground LP!
Lyrically, the song seems to be a seering indictment of someone who believed in the Thatcherite/Major dream a sort of Like A Rolling Stone for the end of the century…
Kenny hopes that the album will inspire other people to respond creatively since he himself never wrote anything until he was 35. It’s never too late…