7398 - WILL TAYLOR & GUY FORSYTH Live At St. David's Church Austin Texas (2013)
WILL TAYLOR & GUY FORSYTH
''LIVE AT ST. DAVID'S CHURCH IN AUSTIN TEXAS, GUY FORSYTH WITH STRINGS ATTACHED''
JANUARY 23 2013
48:21
1. Children of Jack 5:16
2. New Monkey King 4:12
3. Midnight Train 4:52
4. Irish Folksong 1:54
5. Heart of Sawdust 6:41
6. Leave Me Alone 5:39
7. Born to Late 3:56
8. Heart Shaped Hole 4:54
9. The Water Is Wide 6:29
10. Voices Inside 4:33
Album Notes
By cdbaby
Will Taylor and Strings Attached team up with Austin music veteran Guy Forsyth for an evening of acoustic musical collaboration Friday, February 9, 2007, 730 and 10pm at the Hyde Park Methodist Church.....
People like to put their music into neat categories—it helps them organize their record collection. But Guy Forsyth likes to simplify things. "When you break it down, there's really only three types of music," he conjectures. "There's the stuff you like, the stuff you don't like, and the stuff you haven't heard."
Once he settled in Austin, Forsyth's passion and affinity for the Delta blues and other music from the 1920s and '30s netted him both a record deal and a loyal following for both his solo work and his spirited collaborations with the Asylum Street Spankers. Forsyth quickly gained a reputation as one of the city's best acoustic blues guitarists, harpists, and saw players.....
Info about Strings Attached: ....
Will Taylor has a musical proposition for you -- a playful, dignified, off-kilter idea that brings honor to Austin's identity as "The Live Music Capital of the World." It's a cool concept. But it's just a bit . . . different. ....
Imagine what might happen, suggests Taylor, if we took Austin's most popular singer-songwriters -- Abra Moore, or Jimmy LaFave, or Patrice Pike, or Ray Wylie Hubbard -- and let them perform, live, in a church? Then imagine if you paired those artists with acoustic "chamber" instruments -- cello, violin, viola, trumpet and hand drums -- and wrote new arrangements, adding dashes of jazz and classical music, that revealed new facets of their most beautiful or familiar songs? ....
Imagine what might happen if you dared to blur all these boundaries between pop music and jazz, between rock music and classical music, between the musical realm and the lyrical realm, between the honky-tonk and the church, and in the spirit of art and fun and experimentation, you reached out for something . . . transcendent? ....
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"Risks are taken. Boundaries are broken. The musical realm and the lyrical realm become one, in the heart of downtown Austin, inside one of the oldest churches in Texas. Amazing grace, indeed."
- Brad Buchholtz, Austin American-Statesman
"The first time I heard an arrangement of one of my songs by Will Taylor, it as an a capella lullaby I had written for my daughter ("It's Alright"). Will brought a depth and lushness to my song that had me in tears, and I find that this is what I love about working with him. You hand Will an idea, and it becomes a grand symphonic piece that must be born of dreams, hard work, understanding and, perhaps, genius. His arrangements helped me create what I was seeking: aural arms of love that reach out and wrap around you."
- Sara Hickman....
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"It's a lot of fun! They are really fun guys and they have a good time with it, and Will does a lot of work beforehand to make it fun."
- Grammy Winner Shawn Colvin
"As program director for 107.1 KGSR Radio Austin, I have witnessed their development of a consistent body of work over time. In fact, their unique interactions with artists in our community (including Grammy winner Shawn Colvin, songwriting legend Chip Taylor and countless others) have motivated our station to broadcast the live performances of Will Taylor and Strings Attached. The work being done here is of a caliber to that being done anywhere on the planet. It is that sophisticated and singular. Will Taylor and Strings Attached are one of the reasons people call Austin 'The Live Music Capital of the World.' Long may their bows be strung!"
- Jody Denberg, Program Director, KGSR 107.1FM Austin
"It is truly a pleasure to work with Will Taylor and Strings Attached, to hear my music produced in such a sensitive and innovative form, and most importantly to be supportive of CASA's tireless efforts on behalf of abused children."
– Grammy nominee Eliza Gilkyson
"It's a credit to Taylor that an album this eclectic holds so strong at the seams... his inspired creativity and often amazing use of the violin make this album transcend the experimental to become art" - Christopher Hess, Austin Chronicle
"This finely nuanced, gorgeously recorded CD speaks volumes for Austin's music scene... imaginatively reworked, pensive and much to love."
- Chip Deffaa, Entertainment Weekly....
BIOGRAPHY
By Wikipedia
Guy Forsyth (born December 2, 1968)[3] is an American Texas blues and blues rock singer, guitarist, harmonicist and songwriter. He has released nine albums to date.(15-03-2014).
He regularly tours both in the United States and Europe, and has opened for Ray Charles, Robert Cray, Dr. John, B.B. King, Jimmie Vaughan, and Lucinda Williams. His most recent release was The Freedom To Fail (2012).
Forsyth's repertoire, which is primarily blues in format, also incorporates traces of rock, R&B, folk, jazz and pop. As a songwriter, many of his albums contain his own work and songs he co-composed with other local musicians.[6] Forsyth has won several Austin Music Awards, including one for "best male vocalist" in 2005.
LIFE AND CAREER
Forsyth was born in Denver, Colorado, and grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. With an airline employee as a father, Forsyth's formative years were interspersed with frequent relocations to New York, Connecticut, and California before settling again in Kansas City. By the age of 16 he began playing the harmonica, in addition to singing, and was influenced by the work to Robert Johnson to later learn to play the guitar. Forsyth moved to Austin, Texas, in January 1990. By the mid-1990s, Forsyth's live performances became well known around Austin. In addition to solo work and with his own band, Forsyth was one of the co-founders of the Asylum Street Spankers. The band developed a raucous and irreverent sound, focusing on musicianship and theatricality. They played most of their earlier concerts without any amplification, which resulted in a heightened theatricality to the shows. Forsyth played on their 2000 album, Spanker Madness. A Dutch based independent record label had earlier released High Temperature (1994), a live recording of Forsyth's own band's work. The following year, Needle Gun was released by Lone Star Music, with the work also billed as by the Guy Forsyth Band. Allmusic noted that his live work was "loud, raw and raucous." Forsyth played a lengthy residency at Antone's during this time and, in preparing work for his third album, Forsyth decided to leave the Asylum Street Spankers to retain his solo based focus.
In 1999, Can You Live Without was released, and in the following year Steak. Forsyth tried to promote both efforts but his record label hit financial trouble and momentum was lost. In 2002, Forsyth set up his own label known as Small and Nimble Records.
It took until 2005 before Love Songs: For and Against was issued. Forsyth increased his touring schedule and performed at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2005 and 2007, plus the High Sierra Music Festival (2007), Notodden Blues Festival (1994), Los Alamos Festival, BBQ & Blues Festival, Tønder Festival (2008), Rhythm 'n' Blues Festival, American Music Festival, Ottawa Bluesfest, Kerrville Folk Festival and Rochester's Bricktown Festival. 2007′s Unrepentant Schizophrenic Americana, was a double live compilation album. Calico Girl (2008), featured new songs as well as re-recordings from Can You Live Without. 300 Miles from Here to There, a live performance CD and DVD was issued in 2011.
In 2012, The Freedom to Fail was released by Blue Corn Music. "These songs represent an articulation of the changes in my viewpoints and the new legality that I see." Forsyth explained. "Becoming a father in this period of time and looking around me and trying to figure out what it is that I had to say to my daughter to explain myself. I don't feel the need to explain myself to everyone, but I sure as hell feel the need to explain myself to my daughter, because I want her to have that sort of connection with her origins." It was recorded at the Lost Oasis Studio in Austin, Texas, and included musical contributions from Jon Dee Graham, plus Asylum Street Spankers band mates Jonathan Doyle and Sick.
Forsyth continues to tour and perform regularly in 2014.
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