The mp3s on the right are four 30-second samples taken from The Red Flag's 1st album Hundreds Of Sunshine (Folkwit Records cat. F0012, released 14th October 2006)


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If you like what you hear, or want to comment in some way, please drop us a line at feedback@theredflags.net

All songs ©Keith Mouland 2006
Publishers - Peter Mason Music Ltd / Carlin Music Corp.

To buy album online, CLICK HERE

Press & Reviews for
Hundreds Of Sunshine

The album has had great reviews & loads of airplay throughout Europe, but until we find someone who can translate Dutch / French / Swedish etc., we'll stick to English reviews...you REALLY don't want to see the BabelFish 'translations' ("My hovercraft is full of eels...")

"Can someone from Wiltshire produce true authentic alt.country music? On the showing of this album by The Red Flags, the answer is assuredly yes....the whole album is so redolent of the West it never entered my mind that this was anything other than a brave new band from the States....regardless of where they come from this is one of the finest, crispest sets of songs I've heard for a while"
Click HERE to read full review.
(Maverick magazine, July 2007
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"It is beautiful stuff, gentle, thought provoking, stripped back with very sparse instrumentation, a real pleasure to listen to..."
(Digital Blues Review, 17th February 2007)
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"The overall feel is as if Steve Forbert was sitting around with JJ Cale....it’s a very relaxed and listenable record"
(AmericanaUK, 30th January 2007)
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(album of the week - Ctrl.Alt.Country, 16th December 2006)
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"it's cracking, it really is!"
"...superb stuff"
"A great discovery...a lovely album..not only good but diverse as well."
(Nonny James, Fretwork, BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester & BBC Radio Shropshire
Thursday 4th January 2007)
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The Red Flags
Hundreds Of Sunshine
[Folkwit Records] ****
"Wiltshire based roots and blues musician Keith Mouland has been recording albums in various guises for many years now; mainly solo but often with top drawer alt-country musicians. But I’m guessing this is the one that’ll make people put down what they’re doing and lean in a little bit closer.
Because what he’s managed to do here is create a genuine slice of homegrown Americana and not a ten-gallon hat or Confederate flag in sight.
Along with Harry O’Shea on double bass and accordion [they are The Red Flags] he’s put together an acoustic set of tunes that practically evoke the sounds, smell and taste of the prairie: Songs like One-Way Train, Cool Canyon and Dead Snake are all simply recorded with just guitar, bass and a little piano for accompaniment; which just goes to show that less is more. And with Quirky, Bye Bye Baby and Funeral Song all life, love and death bases are covered too. It just doesn’t come much better than this."
(John Medd, Nottingham Evening Post, 18th August 2006)
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"You don't have to be American to produce top draw Americana, as Keith Mouland and Harry O'Shea, aka The Red Flags, prove with the release of "Hundreds Of Sunshine". Call it alt.country, call it country blues, it's got class written all over it. Like all good country blues there are tracks that sit very much on the darkside of the genre, falling just short of real murder ballads. It's a collection of fifteen short stories set to some very good music. It's stripped back, nothing is wasted. All that remains is essential. It's evocative and it's like letting a late night session into your lounge."
(Cambridge & Beyond, August 2006)
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'...They are described as producing 'the finest original alt. country / Americana in the known universe' and on listening to some sample tracks from Keith and Harry's soon-to-be-released debut album Hundreds Of Sunshine, I'm inclined to agree.  This is stripped-down alt. country at its best...'
(Jon Dart, BMV magazine, 24.03.2006)