Release Date: 02 June 2023
Label: Ruf Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 710347130123
Genres: Blues
Release Date: 02 June 2023
Label: Ruf Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 710347208815
Genres: Blues
Description
As far back as he can remember, Capricorn Studios was calling Eddie 9V. As a kid scanning the sleeves of his favorite vinyl records, this fabled facility in Macon, Georgia, was always the secret ingredient, adding a little grit and honey to every song born on its floor. Capricorn and the bands who blew through it urged the Atlanta guitarist to ditch school at 15, play his fingers bloody throughout the south, and turn apathy into acclaim for early albums Left My Soul in Memphis (2019) and Little Black Flies (2021).
Capricorn is an album of thrilling musical contrasts. Bob Dylan's "Down Along the Cove" is a pugnacious blues-rocker, followed by Khristie French's gossamer lead vocal on the spiritual Mary Don't You Weep. Mellow Missouri is dusty as a great lost soul session, while brass punches through the glassy chords of "I'm Lonely". Finally, the album ends with Eddie's laughter as he realizes he has no more to give: "I gotta come out of this room...!"
Never meet your heroes, they say, and many young artists have been overwhelmed by walking the holy ground of their dream studios. At Capricorn, Eddie 9V breathed in the history - but the album he spat out is worthy of sharing the name, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the studio's greatest hits.
Description
As far back as he can remember, Capricorn Studios in Macon, GA, was calling Eddie 9V. Eddie spent his first quarter-century admiring the studio and the bands that blew through it from afar. But in December 2021, the 26-year-old finally put his thumbprint on the studio's mythology, corralling an eleven-strong group of the American South's best roots musicians to track his third album.
Born Brooks Mason in June 1996, he acquired his first guitar aged six. He ignored the prevailing pop scene at Oak Grove High School in Atlanta, GA, in favor of local heroes like Sean Costello and studied "older cats" like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Freddie King, and Rory Gallagher "to see what made them groove and tick." His shoot-from-the-lip lyrics add Eddie came from family fish fries, where his Uncle Brian "taught me to make people laugh, how to hold an audience's attention."
There's been massive acclaim for Eddie 9V's early output, with Left My Soul in Memphis (2019) dubbed "fresh and life-affirming" by Rock & Blues Muse and Little Black Flies 2021) praised by Classic Rock as "the most instinctive blues you'll hear all year." But in his new effort, the aptly titled Capricorn, Eddie fused the nervous energy into his best songs. "Coming off a straight blues record, I wanted to show people we're more than that," he reflects. "I was listening to Muscle Shoals and Soul, a lot of music recorded at Capricorn in the late-'60s too. So we spent way more time crafting the new tunes. Each song took a week to write, instead of five in one night like Little Black Flies."
Never meet your heroes, they say, and many young artists have been overwhelmed by walking the holy ground of their dream studios. At Capricorn, Eddie 9V breathed in the history - but the album he spat out is worthy of sharing the name, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the studio's greatest hits and taking music back to the golden age. "We made this record," he considers, "the way they would have done in 1969...."
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Roger Chapman
Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado
Krissy Matthews
Canned Heat
Dani Wilde, Victoria Smith & Samantha Fish
Eddie 9V
Oli Brown
Thorbjørn Risager & The Black Tornado
Eddie 9V
