Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Song(s) of the Day # 1,431 Honey Harper


The blog Did Not Chart, listed on the right side of this page keeps putting me onto wonderful things which all I can do is post on here and pass right onto you. This is no exception. Country in the best possible sense in that it's warm and yes honeyed has great shifting melody and feels like its being sung and played just for you as you sit perched on your stool at the end of a long, long bar.



There are just four songs on Honey Harper's Universal Country but for now it's more than enough. Perhaps Cowboy Junkies meets Mazzy Star gives some indication of the starting point for all this, but it doesn't really describe the destination they manage to take it to. It goes back beyond that to Merle, Townes, Gram, Johnny and Waylon.

 

Perhaps it's best to get it from the horse's mouth. William Fussell, the man behind this, an Atlanta Georgia musician now based in London and following Gram Parson's vision of Country as Cosmic American Music. He describes what he's trying to do  as something' that sounds like The Carpenters and Simon & Garfunkel having a baby and then Merle Haggard and Townes Van Zandt made a baby. Then those two babies grow up and get married in Texas.' Whatever he's doing, it works for me.




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