“Best-solo album…Bright November Morning does feel like a new dawn for the Don.. the great storyteller of New Zealand music” – Russell Baillie, NZ Listener “It’s a marvel…Being able to articulate the complex relationship between people and place, fear and beauty, freedom and risk, memory and hope in a few
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