| Where Blues Crosses Over |
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| Kevin Coyne is a multi-talent: musician, writer, artist. His uncompromising attitude towards showbiz fame and fortune has inevitably left him in the position of „outsider“. It´s a position Coyne relishes. It makes life more pleasurable. The freedom to express himself without the chains of commercial consideration (although he would´t be averse to a number one album) helps keep his creativity alive. After Jim Morrison´s death he was offered his Job in The Doors ans famous colleagues as Sting or Johnny Rotten are among his admirers. With the present album, recorded within two days at Protocol Studios in London, he once again prooves being an exeptional artist and a master of improvisation. Together with his sons Eugene and Robert he recorded this album of which he says: “My most honest record in years!”. Thomas Ruf, President of Ruf Records, who attended the recording session as a producer, summarized his impressions as following: “Mr Coyne blew my mind when I personally attended the recording session to become familiar with his style of working. First thing I had to after entering the studio was taking a phone call. Kevin said he was going to “warm up” in the meantime. I took a piss (sorry, but this is a true story!) after the phonecall and went into the control room to take my “producers´s chair”. Kevin just walked out of the recording room and I asked how the soundcheck was doing. “Well we just layed down the second song.” This was twenty minutes into the session! And we had two songs in the can! Late afternoon the next day 19 songs were recorded. The fastest non-boring recording session I´ve ever attended! And let me tell you how this works: the guy is a 100% improviser! He brings no lyric sheets or chord structures or song titles to the studio. He goes in and improvises off the top of his head! It´s unbelievable. You might have seen Jazz musicians improvising instrumental solos on top of a theme or a chord or a song. This man goes in and plays acoustic guitar and improvises a whole song of lyrics and melody off the top of his head… He has made more than 30 albums to date – I had most of them in my collection before he joined our company. And I never knew how he makes his records and writes songs. A big hand for the master of Rock-improvisation in the tradition of the old country bluesmen but with bigger vocabulary. Respect, Mr. Coyne! Hats off for a true master! |
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