Wednesday Album spotlight. I didn't get much recorded this weekend but I did get to this one. Paul K -if you know you know..what I mean by that is if you have ever listened to his music then you were either hooked or it was not your cup of tea. I was hooked. I was first turned on to Paul's music from a friend when I lived in Denver. At that point I took the deep dive into everything Paul. The first proper Paul K release I bought was on Homestead. Very few of his releases were on vinyl, mostly CD. This one on Alias made it to vinyl. Paul lived a very gritty life and unfortunately he died in 2020 at age 57 of throat cancer. If you search on the web you will find an article that calls him “The Greatest Unknown Songwriter of his Generation” and I would agree with that statement. There is a documentary out there on him and I will admit I have only seen it once and it didn't leave me with a warm feeling...but his music does and it has made a huge resonance on me. I relized when I recorded these songs this weekend that I need to have his cd's near me and I need to continue to keep them alive for me.
I really could have recorded this whole LP for the blog..his songs were full of catchy phrases and honesty- take Apple in My Eye for example, "There's plenty of people before it now want to live your life and tell you how, but if you do what they ask of you, you'll be dead before you're through, its true, its true, you'll be dead before your through, it's true, its' true, you'll be a stiff before you're through." You can find his CD's really cheap and once you go down that rabbit hole you will never be the same. Many of his releases were self produced and not on a label and I have a few but apparently he released over 100 releases so there are huge holes in my collection. One last note, this LP was produced by Mo Tucker, from the Velvet Underground.
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