10th anniversary re-issue of Bellowhead frontman’s debut solo album merging pop, rock, electronica and folk. Features new bonus tracks, including Whitney Houston’s ‘I Wanna Dance With Somebody’. (Almost) entirely self-penned, Jon Boden’s first solo album, ‘Painted Lady’ is a work of considerable ambition and originality that will surprise those expecting a version of Bellowhead’s full-on, euphoric energy. The album features 12 songs written by Boden and is especially notable for its dazzling array of instrumentation, including fiddle, octave fiddle, concertina, banjo, guitars, double bass, Indian harmonium, glockenspiel, electric piano, and perhaps more unusually for a folk artist, Moog synthesiser and drum machine – all of which are played by Jon Boden. There’s even Jon’s low-fi interpretation of a Whitney Houston classic, ‘I Wanna Dance (with Somebody)’