Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Excellent Qualities Of The New Delphinium CD

By Jerry Collins


Some persons discover music later than most, and there are those who have created great music or have continued to great success. Whether young or old, many are know making excellent music, and no age rules apply to a scene that is mostly online with sites like YouTube. A lot of these started out early and got lost and came back again, and others started out at a mature age.

One of those who have had the longish journey rediscovered his musician self in an open mic hootenanny. From this, he reaccessed the world and made an album distinguished by mature thought and inspiration in Delphinium CD. People who have discovered Dean Maser will be pleasantly surprised by this CD.

In the spirit of James Taylor and the Depression era song Wandering, Maser has become something of a modern definer of wandering blues minstrelsy. He has followed the footsteps of masters like Bob Dylan, creator of a now accepted standard for wisdom in both music and literature. Plus, he creates a visually oriented kind of music a la Grant Wood with this album.

Delphinium is a way into seeing a legend filled world which partakes of spiritualism in the American West and the wide open skies of the Midwestern plains. The title is derived from the flower of the same name, which horticulturists know to bloom late, around June or July. This summer flower is broadly distributed, from the meadows to the uplands of pine.

His family belonged to a church, and it was the kind of music he made with guitars and ukeleles, and Kumbuyah is like a bad dream to him. All the years spent wandering the music world made the affliction apparent, and he has now lived that down and proceeded to discovering real spirituality. He says how high school made him drive for the works with a 3 song record that no one know will ever hear.

The artist blogs, too, and it is titled The Good Ancestor, a deep trawling of his musical roots and influences, imagined or otherwise. This is personal music history musicians should know. Thus this artist has fully awakened by taking in everything, and this is something reflected in this first full album.

Maser also has a band named SoulShine, composed of himself and another two, creating the classic blues trio. They are currently making a new album that ranges across the idiom. From the hoedown days of BB King, to the electric soulfulness of ZZ Top, to the more straightforward playing of Cash and to distinct styles of Clapton, Hendrix and Dylan.

From Boston to Minneapolis, he has recorded this new album with musicians from Africa and North Dakota. He is taking a stand for all kinds of influences that have become native to his work. However, all the elements that make up the Blues as it was first sung to Old Man River himself are there, evidenced in songs of the album.

Song titles include Heart Be True, Heroes, One Time and Strong Love. Others include the title track, Fall Apart and A Little Older, and you cannot help but notice their strong echoes of tradition. The Blues are all about tradition, about the travails of Biblical Christians and their replication in the American tradition, about love, life and death felt so deeply it opens up a spring of tears.




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