Colin James - Traveler - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

CD reissue of this album from the Candian singer, songwriter and musician. National Steel is a blues album by Colin James, released in 1997. The album was recorded at Rat's Ass Studios and Mushroom Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia and mastered at MasterDisk in New York City. James teams up with his longtime friend Colin Linden to record a predominantly acoustic album running the gamut from delta blues, to jug band and Chicago blues. The album covers songs written by some of the greatest bluesmen including Otis Redding, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon. The album is named after the resonator guitar made by the National guitar company, also pictured on the album's cover. National Steel earned James the 1998 Juno Award for InchBest Blues AlbumInch.

Every time I listen to the very first tones of Afterglow, I get struck immediately, as if by a force of nature. Suddenly, I am part of a natural phenomenon, that manifests right in front of me. At that very moment, everything else in the world doesn't seem to matter that much. There's only you and the musical synergy of two masterminds, who put their hearts and souls in every detail of their private conversation. Exactly the same feeling hit me over and over, when audio engineer Floren Van Stichel and I were part of the creation of Afterglow, in September2018. The sheer beauty of the music by Enrico Pieranunzi and Bert Joris was present at every single moment. The only thing Floren and I had to do was listen. We simply guarded the entire process. While performing together, Enrico once said Sometimes, the moment you don't play adds more significance to the things you do playInch. The same thing applies to being a producer. Being present was just enough. Nature took it's course and Afterglow saw the light of day.Inch (Jasper Somsen)

Colin James - Rooftops & Satellites [COMPACT DISCS] date 12/02/2016