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“IT’S LIKE being a cowboy riding from town to town,” says Wille Edwards, the titular singer and guitarist with Wille & The Bandits, the band he formed in Cornwall in 2010. “We play 250 gigs a year, we’re in a van going up and down the country, and you see things, the consequences of the government’s actions, of austerity. You see closed-down shops, homelessness, poverty. It makes me angry, but rather than take a placard to London and march, I sing about it. My lyrics are like social commentary.”
Paths, the group’s fifth album, is a state-of-the-nation address calling for peace, redistribution of wealth and greater awareness of environmental issues. Recorded in Momentum studio in Plymouth, it captures the group – Edwards, bassist Matt Brooks and drummer Andrew…