Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 52:46
Size: 120.8 MB
Styles: Roots, Contemporary blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front
[5:01] 1. One Thing That's For Sure
[3:51] 2. She's Mine
[3:21] 3. The World Alive
[5:24] 4. I'm Trying To Tell You
[3:55] 5. A Quiet Mind
[3:09] 6. La Madrugada
[5:40] 7. Pay The Price
[3:58] 8. Ninety-Nine Miles
[3:48] 9. Just Begun
[6:02] 10. If It Ain't For You
[8:33] 11. Lonesome For The West
Seven years ago while visiting New Orleans in the springtime, Seattle native Colin Lake met his future wife in the airport. The meeting sparked a cosmic chain reaction that would change his life forever. Overwhelmed by the gravity that seemed to be drawing him to the city, Lake moved to town less than a year later and his passion and innate feel for roots music would find fertile ground from which to spring. While his powerful vocal style and soulful touch on the guitar and lap steel owe heavily to countless blues greats, it’s Lake’s knack for song craft that sets him apart from almost anyone in that genre.
One Thing That's For Sure captures the songwriter’s unique musical vision, delivering penetrating lyrics with soul and gritty sincerity. On the album’s eleven original songs, Lake sings of love and longing, truth and transcendence, hope and struggle. These are love songs, but not just in the romantic sense -- these are songs that celebrate love’s well earned triumph over fear and tread the territory where light and shadows meet.
One Thing That's For Sure captures the songwriter’s unique musical vision, delivering penetrating lyrics with soul and gritty sincerity. On the album’s eleven original songs, Lake sings of love and longing, truth and transcendence, hope and struggle. These are love songs, but not just in the romantic sense -- these are songs that celebrate love’s well earned triumph over fear and tread the territory where light and shadows meet.
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Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 45:46
Size: 104.8 MB
Styles: Roots, New Orleans blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front
[4:58] 1. Temporary Living
[3:07] 2. Ain't Gonna' Worry
[5:50] 3. Sammy Song
[2:38] 4. In On Time
[3:42] 5. The Ones I Love
[3:06] 6. Start At The Bottom
[5:39] 7. Lovin' Man
[6:15] 8. Where Did We Go Wrong
[3:35] 9. Learning The Way
[3:09] 10. Skipjack
[3:41] 11. Flowers In Her Hair
I doubt if Colin Lake is that well known outside of his adopted state of Louisiana - but he should be. With 'The Ones I Love', some of the raw edge and energy of his previous album, 'Bullet', has been sacrificed in favour of a more polished sound - but the sound hasn't been over-polished by any means.
The music is heavily influenced by the rhythms of New Orleans. Most tracks feature drums/percussion (including congas) and electric or acoustic bass. Also, keyboards - Rhodes, Wurlitzer and Hammond (featuring some deft playing from Marc Adams), and horns (2 songs). Colin plays lead electric/resonator guitars on a number of tracks, but it is his lap-slide/lap-steel playing (5 songs) that is really impressive. As with almost any album, for me there are a couple of less compelling songs but, in overall terms, it's a good set of songs (all written by Colin) - I'm more than happy to listen to the whole album without skipping.
Colin Lake is a good vocalist, a decent song-writer and, above all, an accomplished slide guitar player. 'The Ones I Love' is recommended to anyone who likes their rock and blues music served up southern-fried with a generous helping of slide guitar. ~Colin Spence
The music is heavily influenced by the rhythms of New Orleans. Most tracks feature drums/percussion (including congas) and electric or acoustic bass. Also, keyboards - Rhodes, Wurlitzer and Hammond (featuring some deft playing from Marc Adams), and horns (2 songs). Colin plays lead electric/resonator guitars on a number of tracks, but it is his lap-slide/lap-steel playing (5 songs) that is really impressive. As with almost any album, for me there are a couple of less compelling songs but, in overall terms, it's a good set of songs (all written by Colin) - I'm more than happy to listen to the whole album without skipping.
Colin Lake is a good vocalist, a decent song-writer and, above all, an accomplished slide guitar player. 'The Ones I Love' is recommended to anyone who likes their rock and blues music served up southern-fried with a generous helping of slide guitar. ~Colin Spence
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