Ben Walker (facebook.com/benwalkermusicofficial/) writes songs of heart, soul, joy, sadness and hope. He writes them with nuance, poignancy and insight. He is simply a very very fine wordsmith.

 

The recordings on his debut album “A Place I Like To Go To” are held together by a couple of essential tenants – they are beautiful written (and sung) observations on life, times and the emotions that we all experience. They rank amongst some of the finest examples of song writing coming from this country.

 

In the same way that the likes of Paul Kelly, Kasey Chambers, Don Walker, Julia Jacklin, and Grace Cummings aren’t labelled with a musical category – they’re simply known as great songwriters – nor should Ben Walker. He’s a writer of songs. That’s what he does.