Metro
I’ve presented the album liner notes below, but wanted to
say something about the creation of the songs featured here.
It’s a strange thing to try and write songs in this day and age. We can’t reproduce the conditions that the old bluesmen
lived in – we just don’t live in the same world anymore, but we all know that deep down blues feeling.
This album is a combination of acoustic blues and some songs with a definite folky feel. Some subjects, like the hopeful
'Up to You' need a more gentle treatment than the blues format allows.
There’s nothing new in music. Someone asked me once where the blues are going.
That’s easy – just like everything else – full circle, back to how it was. That’s where the truth and the simplicity is.
Sometimes you can listen to someone playing a very complex piece of music and feel nothing, lost as it is in technique
and complication. It’s so easy to lose our way in this deceptively simple genre. BB King once said once said there’s nothing
to analyse, you know it when you hear it, it’s just the truth.
So that’s where we are. We want to create that truthful simplicity in our music, but how to do it? Listen to the first few notes
of most Lightnin’ Hopkins’ songs and a chill runs down your spine. There’s not a lot happening musically, but he speaks volumes.
His guitar is saying ‘this is life, this is the truth, this is the blues’.
It’s a strange thing to try and write songs in this day and age. We can’t reproduce the conditions that the old bluesmen
lived in – we just don’t live in the same world anymore, but we all know that deep down blues feeling.
This album is a combination of acoustic blues and some songs with a definite folky feel. Some subjects, like the hopeful
'Up to You' need a more gentle treatment than the blues format allows.
There’s nothing new in music. Someone asked me once where the blues are going.
That’s easy – just like everything else – full circle, back to how it was. That’s where the truth and the simplicity is.
Sometimes you can listen to someone playing a very complex piece of music and feel nothing, lost as it is in technique
and complication. It’s so easy to lose our way in this deceptively simple genre. BB King once said once said there’s nothing
to analyse, you know it when you hear it, it’s just the truth.
So that’s where we are. We want to create that truthful simplicity in our music, but how to do it? Listen to the first few notes
of most Lightnin’ Hopkins’ songs and a chill runs down your spine. There’s not a lot happening musically, but he speaks volumes.
His guitar is saying ‘this is life, this is the truth, this is the blues’.
Peace,
Jim Bruce April 16 2010
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Wake Up, Walk Out
Acoustic Blues Travellers - Jim Bruce and Ken Mayall
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