Release Date: 15 June 2018
Label: Black Hen Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 803057034222
Release Date: 15 June 2018
Label: Black Hen Music
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 803057034277
Description
'Lucky Hand' is Steve Dawson's first record of instrumental music since 'Rattlesnake Cage' came out in 2014 and represents a high point of more than two decades of musical searching. Comprised of 10 instrumental tracks of solo, duo and full-bodied string works, Dawson has never released music as sweeping, dynamic and visually suggestive as this.
Five of 'Lucky Hand's' tracks feature his old partner Jesse Zubot's innovative string arrangements based on melodies suggested by Dawson's guitar. With Peggy Lee (cello), Jesse and his brother Josh Zubot (violins) and John Kastle (viola) - contributing to the session, the results are moody and intense, full of imagery and suggestion.
As a producer and sideman, Steve spends a lot of his time in the studio capturing the essence of other top names in roots music, but it's when he turns his hand to composing and playing his own original material that he really shines. Recorded live off the floor, with several microphones used to capture the guitar and orchestration, this recording represents the perfect intersection of the primitive and the modern that has fascinated Dawson for so long.
Listen carefully to 'Lucky Hand' and you'll discern snatches of musical ideas from dustbowl history and the Delta Blues, nods to Chet Atkins, the inference of a Mississippi John Hurt melody, the dissonance of John Fahey remembered in a sustaining chord, and the modern touches of Ry Cooder and Sonny Landreth.
Description
'Lucky Hand' is Steve Dawson's first record of instrumental music since 'Rattlesnake Cage' came out in 2014 and represents a high point of more than two decades of musical searching. Comprised of 10 instrumental tracks of solo, duo and full-bodied string works, Dawson has never released music as sweeping, dynamic and visually suggestive as this.
Five of 'Lucky Hand's' tracks feature his old partner Jesse Zubot's innovative string arrangements based on melodies suggested by Dawson's guitar. With Peggy Lee (cello), Jesse and his brother Josh Zubot (violins) and John Kastle (viola) - contributing to the session, the results are moody and intense, full of imagery and suggestion.
As a producer and sideman, Steve spends a lot of his time in the studio capturing the essence of other top names in roots music, but it's when he turns his hand to composing and playing his own original material that he really shines. Recorded live off the floor, with several microphones used to capture the guitar and orchestration, this recording represents the perfect intersection of the primitive and the modern that has fascinated Dawson for so long.
Listen carefully to 'Lucky Hand' and you'll discern snatches of musical ideas from dustbowl history and the Delta Blues, nods to Chet Atkins, the inference of a Mississippi John Hurt melody, the dissonance of John Fahey remembered in a sustaining chord, and the modern touches of Ry Cooder and Sonny Landreth.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Big Dave McLean
Ndidi O
Steve Dawson
Steve Dawson
John Wort Hannam
Steve Dawson
Great Uncles Of The Revolution
Jim Byrnes
Steve Dawson
Steve Dawson
Steve Dawson
Steve Dawson
Steve Dawson
Steve Dawson
Steve Dawson
