Peter Frampton's studio album "Thank You Mr Churchill" is his first since his Grammy Award winning instrumental album "Footprints" in 2006. It is a very autobiographical album starting with Frampton's birth after his father's return from the Second World War, as celebrated in the title track. Other tracks relate to his first musical experiences, his relationship with his son and his life before and after finding sobriety as well his take on events around the world that have affected him and his love of Motown. As you would expect his guitar playing is exemplary, perhaps nowhere more than on the 8 minute instrumental "Suite Liberte" which forms the centrepiece of the album.
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