Auteur: <span>Bas</span>

JJ Cale achtige track, dat Battle Cry Blues van Bad Temper Joe en Fernant Zeste. Joe komt overigens uit Duitsland, en Fernant uit Roemenie. Helemaal prima, maar het enige nadeel is dat de bio in het Duits is. Dat spreken we niet zo goed , vandaar dat we dan maar gelijk overgaan naar de muziek.

We hebben je in het verleden al kennis laten maken met Mt. Joy. Daarom schakelen we meteen over naar het liedje, Every Holiday. Een, jawel, kerstliedje. Niet meteen wegzappen, want als je houdt van muziek als Anthony D’Amato, Boy & Bear, Grizzly Bear etc, dan zit je hier zeker goed.

“Every holiday is a song I wrote in my garage the day after Christmas. I was just feeling the weight of a failing relationship and what feels like a society that’s caving in on itself. The holidays just juxtapose sadness in a beautiful way. There’s a blue feeling that comes with the holidays; the recognition of loss, unspoken competition/familial pressure, and just the frozen gray landscape of a Philly winter. There’s plenty of joy, but I just was feeling a heaviness in my life and music has always been the outlet for that.”

“In the tropical North of Australia, around where my brother lives, there are an abundance of beautiful waterfalls that you can trek up to. I wrote ‘The Font’ after one particularly beautiful bush walk that cut through dense jungle and finished at the feet of a gushing waterfall. Personally, I find nature to be very calming and spiritual, and in ‘The Font’, I lyrically compare swimming in the fresh water to being baptised in a natural “baptismal font”. Without formal religion in my life, I find a lot of meaning in the wonder of nature and I wrote this song almost as a gospel hymn, dedicated to unrivaled beauty of the Natural World.” – Jackson Dyer