ARTIST: Steve Robinson
TITLE: Undercurrent
LABEL: Sunshine Drenchy
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 40:13 min
SIZE: 54,8 MB
RIP DATE: Jul-06-2007
RELEASE DATE: Jul-03-2007
WEBSITE: n/a
Track List:
01. Wooden Hill 04:32
02. Please Emmalene 03:57
03. The Best Days of Your Life 03:36
04. Love Is Real 04:51
05. Wasted and Waiting 04:19
06. Forget About Love 04:11
07. Road To Ruin 03:50
08. Class Clown 03:36
09. Boring God 03:08
10. I'm In Trouble (Again) 04:13
Release Notes:
"Undercurrent" is the second solo Sunshine Drenchy
Records release from the ex-Roger McGuinn sideman
and former voice of Florida's folk-rock darlings,
the Headlights.
Unlike 2005's DIY dark horse "Away For The
Day","Undercurrent" is more of a collaborative
affair and benefits from the sympathetic (bordering
on telepathic, according to Steve) efforts of
co-producer and multi-instrumentalist Ed Woltil(The
Ditchflowers). It also features veteran drummer
Chuck Darling(Nineveh Project); a guest spot from
Celtic fiddler Victor Gagnon(Seven
Nations,Rathkeltair), as well as some harmony vocal
help from Steve's ten year-old daughter, Emma, who
managed to nail her parts in two takes (her dad
could learn something)
On offer is a song of love and commitment (Love Is
Real); an expression of awe at the bond between a
parent and a child (Please Emmalene); a nursery
rhyme-infused homage to a dearly departed mother
(Wooden Hill), and an old-timey, music-hall
influenced singalong remembrance of schooldays past
(The Best Days Of Your Life).
Lest the view appears a little too much like an
exercise in ever-sentimental, rose-tinted nostalgia,
Robinson also tosses in a rather disquieting
strangled-folk rumination on global religious
conflict (Road To Ruin); a tale of drunken excess,
emotional disconnect and failed ambition(Wasted And
Waiting) and an apologetic lament on the pervasive
celebrity worship culture that we humans seem
content to wallow in (Boring God). A little
undercurrent, you might say.