All tagged Alabama Artist
You know what follows is probably going to be something you don’t want to hear from somebody that has no business saying it. Saying “With all due respect…” seems to give some folks the green light to point out something grossly inappropriate or downright rude. Taylor Hunnicutt says she has taken the feeling of hearing that phrase and used it to fuel her passion, “the tone of this whole EP lies with the idea of just being done with this shit.”
It was the end of January before I finally caught up with Taylor Hunnicutt to talk about the release of her first full-length album. She had been dealing with quite a hectic month to say the least. Just before Christmas, she and her husband learned that they would have to move out of the house in which they were living and had hoped to buy. They scrambled to relocate in time to get packed after the holidays for a week in Key West at Mile 0 Fest. Returning from her debut at the huge festival (which she described as “magical”) there was only time for a quick turnaround before heading up to Virginia for a sold-out headlining show which was to be her only scheduled appearance in February. Then began the wait for the appearance of her long-awaited record Alabama Sound on March 22 via 10 Ton Records before she begins a string of dates including support slots and festival stages stretching through October.
When the Martians decide to make their presence known on U.S. soil, I want Abe Partridge to be our official interplanetary Ambassador, without damn question.
You see, compared to the typical backwoods bumpkin that simply gets beamed-up and probed, Partridge would be the strongest example of the creative prowess contained within Humankind: A fine specimen demonstrating the purest of arts - writing, singing, playing and painting - the whole enchilada, rolled-up tight in a delicious tortilla of talent. Thankfully, we all get to enjoy Partridge’s latest collection of tunes with Love in the Dark, reminding us all that some folks are just plain gifted - period.
What is Consciousness?
What is Godliness?
What is the Eternal Living Soul?
What is Heaven or Nirvana, Salvation or the Brahma?
Is it All Just Lies That We Are Told?
This could be a lesson plan for a college-level course in Existentialism or the topics for a really deep intellectual conversation among religious scholars. Could be. But what they really are is the opening verse of the song “God Consciousness” from BB Palmer’s new EP Krishna Country Gold, released August 19. There’s a lot going on here lyrically and musically. The words continue to explore some of the basic questions man has been asking about his existence for centuries, set in ¾ time with honky-tonk instrumentation, including a fiddle break which shifts into an electric guitar-driven groove with actual sitar melodies and all sung in Palmer’s unique voice, which has been best described as a “barroom tenor.” That’s a lot to take in for a song that clocks in at just under three minutes.
