Once you're done here, be sure to check out other artist's best of digi-albums to get the full Bloodshot experience. The three of us hope that you enjoy them.For all those who have commitment issues or are new to the back catalog of our humble label, here's an intro course into The Sadies. I thought that these songs deserved an audience and teamed up with my longtime musical collaborator Dave Coleman to help bring these songs to life. The voices of these characters are of another time, yet their yearnings and desires primordial and timeless. I found it easy to see through the eyes of these characters Jeff had created and to express their words in song with emotions that are very familiar to me. I was pleased to find very inspiring writing in these rural, gothic tales that harken back to the ones passed down in my family in Southern Central Tennessee: and whose influence on me inspired many of my own story songs and writing style early on. I made no promises to Jeff upfront, as it is always difficult to predict how the creative process will (or will not) unfold. I had met Jeff several times over the years at shows I played in his native West Virginia, and later on in Nashville (where he and his wife have since relocated). Jeff Wickland approached me with the idea of looking at his lyrics to see if I might be able to put music to them back in 2010. The songs on this album are a departure from my normal writing process. I’ve often thought how it’s almost like sometimes someone taps you on the shoulder and whispers in your ear: well, this time someone literally did. Song titles, phrases, couplets, melodies, stories & vague outlines have found me whether late at night working a factory job as a teenage college kid, driving down country roads, alone at night fueled by whiskey, daydreaming at a desk job, or listening to another songwriter inspire me on a stage somewhere. Songs have always come to me from the strangest of places. The Hitchhiker’s Blues (Living’s For The Dying) If it’s the golden road you hope to find.” Took me back to the road where I first began The first breathe of night filled the sky Stephen Simmons: vocals & acoustic guitarĭave Coleman: mandolin, organ, percussion
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