Between the enormous amount of singer / songwriters who emerged in the wake of Jack Johnson, the Australian Xavier Rudd managed to stand out in a positive way. The single Messages, taken from the album Food In The Belly (2006), was regularly heard on Dutch radio. Rudd has an admirable productivity, White Moth is already his third album in three years. As we know him from his performances, Rudd plays
… most of the instruments (slide guitar, bass, percussion, harmonica) himself, although he is assisted in most of the songs by musician friends. Stylistically Rudd moves between blues, folk, rock and reggae, giving the music a local touch through the didgeridoo. Personal worries are alternated with social themes. For example in Land Rights, the most outspoken song on the CD, which sings about the exploitation by Australia of the Yolngu people in the fifties of the last century. (MS)more
