Description
Blaze is the 18th album by the American singer, songwriter, and guitarist David Wilcox, independently released on What Are Records? in February 2014. The album was recorded and mixed at former Over The Rhine guitarist Ric Hordinski’s Monastery Recording Studio – a deconsecrated church – in the Walnut Hills suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio.
On this eleven song collection Wilcox (lead vocals, acoustic/electric guitar) is, in the main, supported by Hordinski (acoustic/electric guitar, bass), Byron House (bass) and Joshua Seurkamp (drums), with lesser input from David Torn (electric guitar), Daniel Joseph Dorff (drums, piano), Jars of Clay’s Charlie Lowell (piano), plus Carol Sharar (violin), John Zappa (trumpet) and Marc Raia (guitar). Supported mainly, on this occasion, by electric guitar, with only occasional use of acoustic guitar, Wilcox’s Blaze is an addictive and cohesive marriage of word and melody.
It’s about feeling very much alive. It’s about the memories of leaving town on an ordinary work day, past the usual sights that don’t look so usual any more because you have made your break with it. It’s about the point where the prairie suddenly changes, and the road drops down as the land goes from endless flat to carved out canyon-lands. In other words, life gets deep and complex and interesting. – David Wilcox
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CD tracklist:
01. Oil Talkin To Ya – 5:12
02. Ocean Soul – 4:19
03. Tip of My Tongue – 3:23
04. We Came To Ride the Road – 4:32
05. Guilty By Degree – 3:41
06. Bail My Boat – 4:34
07. Drift – 5:15
08. I’ll Work On You – 4:12
09. Don’t Look Back – 3:42
10. The Sacrifice – 4:40
11. Single Candle – 3:39
Note: Available at Bandcamp: https://davidwilcox.bandcamp.com/album/blaze
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