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    الاثنين، 27 فبراير 2017

    Delphinium CD And Its Amazing Blues Power

    By Jerry Collins


    Late bloomers in the contemporary music scene offer the most distinctive works, and there are a lot of them who have become popular. Great music is being made by people of all ages today, and age groups here do not relate since most things are available on YouTube and other sites. Some discovered playing late while others started young, stopped and then rediscovered their playing roots.

    A musician who took the longer road and found himself entering the world of recorded music is Dean Maser. He made the rediscovery one night during the open mic of a hootenanny and went on to record Delphinium CD. Those lucky enough to know him listen are in for a treat.

    In the spirit of James Taylor and the Depression era song Wandering, Maser has become something of a modern definer of wandering blues minstrelsy. He has followed the footsteps of masters like Bob Dylan, creator of a now accepted standard for wisdom in both music and literature. Plus, he creates a visually oriented kind of music a la Grant Wood with this album.

    Delphinium is a way into seeing a legend filled world which partakes of spiritualism in the American West and the wide open skies of the Midwestern plains. The title is derived from the flower of the same name, which horticulturists know to bloom late, around June or July. This summer flower is broadly distributed, from the meadows to the uplands of pine.

    His musical roots was church music like Kumbayah from which he has recovered after years of struggle. His music with guitars and ukeleles is all the better for having exchanged the song with real spiritualism he found during the wandering and undecided years. In high school, he tried shooting the works with a band, recording a 3 part work that he says no one has ever heard or will every hear.

    The musical artist also blogs, and this one is named The Good Ancestor, a deep reflection on influences and musical roots. He has traced the deepest roots for his art. As an artist, he has thus become awake from all these years of study, something his first album expresses well.

    Maser also has a band named SoulShine, composed of himself and another two, creating the classic blues trio. They are currently making a new album that ranges across the idiom. From the hoedown days of BB King, to the electric soulfulness of ZZ Top, to the more straightforward playing of Cash and to distinct styles of Clapton, Hendrix and Dylan.

    From Boston to Minneapolis, he has recorded this new album with musicians from Africa and North Dakota. He is taking a stand for all kinds of influences that have become native to his work. However, all the elements that make up the Blues as it was first sung to Old Man River himself are there, evidenced in songs of the album.

    Song titles include Heart Be True, Heroes, One Time and Strong Love. Others include the title track, Fall Apart and A Little Older, and you cannot help but notice their strong echoes of tradition. The Blues are all about tradition, about the travails of Biblical Christians and their replication in the American tradition, about love, life and death felt so deeply it opens up a spring of tears.




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