Omschrijving

A Texas born singer/songwriter who now works in London where he did a PhD in Anthropology  - a subject that would seem a useful tool for a songwriter. This album follows up to his last release BALLADS OF CAPTIVITY AND FREEDOM (2018) with a new set of self-written songs. They largely consider the human conditions of love and of finding it. The album was recorded in Texas and in London and was produced, engineered and mixed by Pat Manske. A musician and producer who has worked with a range of artists like Alejandro Escovedo as an engineers as well as a percussionist with Joe Ely to name just two of his clients.

Here he fulfils duties both sides of the desk. He is joined by the renowned Scrappy Judge Newcomb on guitars and the UK’s (and Lonesome Highway featured) Joe Harvey-Whyte on pedal steel. But it is St.Clair who is the central character here with his engaging voice which has a gentle quality that suits this writing which deal with the ups and downs associated with the vagaries of a lasting relationship. 

Nevertheless, St.Clair can also up the tempo as required such as with the vibrant Bad Billy. There are some the solid vocal harmonies in Without Him and the questioning of the title track which wonders “do you feel strange, if you still hear my name?” Here St.Clair sings of making a decision to move on and make a new life. As with the album overall there is a delicacy that rewards and reveals not only the structure of the lyrics themselves but the details of the music which at all times sits together comfortably with those words. Courage To Be Kind focuses on the kind nature of a woman who continues do so in the middle of the cruelty that surrounds her. The King not only mentions pedal steel guitar but also features it in an enticing and illuminating way on this tale of a former majesty of the honky-tonks and has search for the high life.

George St Clair has traveled in his career and absorbed both the people and places that he has encountered along the way. These experiences are translated into a set of honest songs that seems to be unassumingly modest but soon reveal their depth with crafted melody and mellifluousness.

Tracklist: 
01. Do You Feel Strange_
02. Courage to Be Kind
03. If You Look Up
04. The King
05. The Only Thing
06. She Broke Your Heart
07. Bad Billy
08. Without Him
09. Airplane Wine
10. Take My Life

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“Muziek is kunst en kunst moet voor iedereen bereikbaar zijn, anders is het elitair.”