“Baxter Dury had a sorry 2016: his heart got broken and he spent a few months crying in his flat. “I got the fire brigade round to put out sandbanks around my emotions,” he quipped recently. So ‘Prince Of Tears’ is an adult break-up record. It’s also a Baxter Dury one, which is to say, it’s despairing, comically cutting and never dreary. Musically, this is also a long way from the trill singing vo”
“In 2016, Baxter Dury got dumped. He didn’t take it well. After either one week or one hundred he pulled himself off of his sofa with ‘Prince of Tears’ as his crutch – a break up album for all the Ray Winstones out there. Or at least that’s how it starts, with ‘Miami’ and Dury embodying a big fish wannabe gangster bowling through a shit club declaring himself nonsensical things like “The night chef”
