Archive for the ‘musician’ Category

There are still people who are being authentic, no matter that the radios, T.V’s, newspapers and magazines are telling us different! I was fortunate enough to be introduced to the website of The Take Away Shows.

Bon Iver is unelievably awesome and this video captures so well his authenticity and passion.

If you recognise the words in this heading then you already know who I am about to introduce…
yes, it is the inimitably torn musical pain of Rocky Votolato’s album Suicide Medicine.

Listen to this and you know for sure that this guy has felt life at it’s most challenging and he puts it all into his voice and his guitar. “you know this world is eating him alive, but you just can’t find the metaphor to describe, bottle of pills and the emptiness in this soft light”. I mean, COME ON, the guy’s amazing!

Another thing which really attracts me to this album is the bare-bones feel of it. There are few instruments used, and only where they work to lift and move the song forwards. Subtle uses of drums and haunting harmonica have never failed to move and electrify me. I hope it does the same for you.