Sep. 06, 2006 -
Issue #568: Sex in the City
WED, SEP 13 / CLAY GEORGE / BLACK DOG
PREVUE
When Clay George arrives in Edmonton next week for a gig at the Black Dog,
he’ll be bringing his deep, soulful voice and plenty of songs of
loneliness and disillusionment. But there’s something about the music
on George’s Cherry Bank Hotel that elevates the album from the pits of
despair. Maybe it’s the ghostly fiddles and pedal steel guitars that
drift through the songs, or maybe it’s the way that he conveys a sense
of real life, lived in and worn down, in the stories he sings. Whatever it
is, the tales all come out of George’s own experiences and he imbues
them with a sense of survival. And you never know, he might even come up with
a few more heartbreakers as the prairie miles go rolling by.
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