Romance, Richmond Fontaine style . . . Don’t go there alone!

Alan J Taylor met up with Richmond Fontaine’s Willy Vlautin recently at the Greystones, Sheffield, UK.

Just after the release of WE USED TO THINK THE HIGHWAY SOUNDED LIKE A RIVER, Richmond Fontaine’s front man and principle song writer Willy Vlautin, had insisted that he was doing his utmost best to write a ‘COLES CORNER’ as in the style of Sheffield’s own Richard Hawley. After listening to the new CD THE HIGH COUNTRY, back to back for two days, I suggested politely, that maybe he just wasn’t cut out for this love story thing.