Luke Winslow-King – Old/New Baby
June 14, 2009 by Editor
Filed under 2009 Releases, Album Reviews
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:
- As April Is to May
- Shoeshine
- Never Tired
- Below 1:10
- All the Same
- I’ll See You When I Look At You
- Birthday Stomp
- Dragon Fly, Dragon Flower
- Bird Dog Blues
- Lost Soul
- Airplane
- The Sun Slamming the Highway
- St. Andrew’s Ferry
- Searchlight Waltz
- Your Eyes, Your Eyes
Links:
www.lukewinslowking.com
www.myspace.com/lukewinslowking
