You Can’t Win Every Time, the perfect musical companion for these troubled times. Kempston, ever the master storyteller truly excels on this latest record, delivering with both gravitas and eloquence the expansive narrative songs for which he has become widely known and appreciated for. Poetic, literate, expressive, full of perfectly observed and relatable characters, drawing on a stellar supporting cast of musicians from both his native Scotland and abroad, this might just be his most accessible and best album yet.
A beguiling talent, his poetic, expressive songs weaving around his impressivel fluid acoustic guitar work. Entire worlds are compressed into his songs — Russell Leadbetter, The Herald Scotland
**** Kempston exerts a strange fascination, his fragile, reproachful vocals deliver cryptic moral tales and admonitions, accompanied by his nimble, Jansch-inspired guitar accompaniments — Jim Gilchrist, The Scotsman
