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One of Britain's most eloquent singer-songwriters with a live selection of some of his most memorable songs performed in stripped down fashion. Achingly beautiful stuff. MWK's voice soars and his guitar is loud...a front man going it solo, not a laid back folkie.
THE DAILY EXPRESS
***** 5/5

This album provides the perfect catalogue from which Nashville stars on the look out for a classy song can pick and choose. Sublime.
MAVERICK
**** 4/5

With King's dusty Townes Van Zandt meets Daniel Lanois vocal timbre in fine form, he strokes the star kissed desert night melancholia through a selection of world weary gems and, two of the finest yearning songs in anyone's book, Beautiful Lies and Tim Hardin '65.
WHAT'S ON BIRMINGHAM

This stripped down set reveals MWK's strengths as both vocalist and writer. The voice, rich and expressive is as good as any of the current crop and better than many of the presently revered. The songs warrant the same assessment. Let's put it this way; there are two songs from Townes Van Zandt and one from Ronnie Lane spread amongst the fourteen on offer, yet only a real pedant could claim that they overshadow Michael's own work. This album is a gem that you'd be foolish to overlook.
ROOTS AND BRANCHES

This man is a song smith and storyteller par excellence. By the time that I'd got to track four I had to stop the CD, get the guitar out and try to get the basic shape of two songs. Ah, the songs............fourteen little bite-sized slices of perfection.
GREENMAN REVIEW

Conceived as a “concert only” momento for fans, it functions as much more than that, and has earned a proper release in it's own right. Outstanding songs.
TRISTE

Anyone who enjoys John Prine and solo Steve Earle should seek this album out pronto! If he's appearing near you then go and see him. He is truly outstanding.
GREENMAN REVIEW

As the "hear a pin drop" audience suggest throughout - he knows a thing or two about keeping an audience captivated. Tinged with inevitable sadness, it's a dignified ride into the sunset for an album that never shies away from taking passion's punches squarely on the chin.
WHISPERIN ' & A HOLLERIN'
****4/5

The acoustic troubadour route is a road worn and scarred down the long years, but when infused with as much feeling, unabashed honesty (and occasional humour) as this, its' strength remains undiminished. "Live...In Dinky Town" is a living testament to that fact.
WHISPERIN ' & A HOLLERIN'
****4/5