Luke Winslow-King – Old/New Baby

Luke Winslow-King
Old/New Baby

Release Date: August 11, 2009
Record Label: Fox on a Hill

Review:

Luke Winslow-King has put together masterful creations that mix blues, folk and jazz. His website describes Old/New Baby as 15 original songs that marry traditional New Orleans music with contemporary song writing. This simple statement almost seems inadequate to fully describe what Winslow-King has created, but one might be hard pressed to come up with something better.

The lyrics are where Winslow-King really puts a modern twist on music that is soundly grounded in traditional music. Lines like “tired as a bad pimp’s bitch” are seamlessly stiched into the music, never used to overtly shock ad awe, but to subversively keep listeners on their toes.

Overall, Luke Winslow-King’s Old/New Baby demonstrates his understading that even traditional music is living thing, not to be constrained by time or rules. A reflection of the modern era, not of days past.

Track Listing:

1. As April Is to May
2. Shoeshine
3. Never Tired
4. Below    1:10
5. All the Same
6. I’ll See You When I Look At You
7. Birthday Stomp
8. Dragon Fly, Dragon Flower
9. Bird Dog Blues
10. Lost Soul
11. Airplane
12. The Sun Slamming the Highway
13. St. Andrew’s Ferry
14. Searchlight Waltz
15. Your Eyes, Your Eyes

Links:

www.lukewinslowking.com
www.myspace.com/lukewinslowking