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Malcolm Holcombe - "Tricks of the Trade"
Malcolm Holcombe - "Tricks of the Trade"
The album "Tricks of the Trade" by Malcolm Holcombe was released yesterday by the publishing company NEED TO KNOW MUSIC with the global radio promotion of G Promo PR.
This musician has so far released 16 or more albums since the mid-90s, but since 2015. he published six complete albums and a special series of singles. In addition, he did perform often until the onset of this disease, but no matter what, Malcolm Holcombe simply did not give up and the story despite everything got his clear and constant flow in which great things were born.
A strange fusion of Tom Waits, J. Call, White, Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurray, Bruce Springsteen and other "troublesome" performers gave a hint of excellent music content and that's exactly what happened on this album. And as things are sold, I admit that Malcolm's "drinking" a hundred an hour surrounded by his friends, great musicians like Dave Roe and Jared Tyler. And, as it says, the team knows their job, they get figured out and actually just exchange that positive venue, and that's why the album sounds so wicked good! Malcolm, Dave and Jared are doing the band with Miles McPherson. Ron de la Vega appears in particular on the cello of Lenora Cynthia. Malcolm received excellent vocal support from Iris DeMent and Grega Brown on recent plates, and here Mary Gauthier and Jaime Harris add their voice to a number of songs, including the Higher Ground.
Malcolm Holcombe comes from a variety of musical traditions: folka, countrys, rock, blues, blues and gospel, and all that is turned into their original musical expression and I can only write "hat down"! In his songs he has mysticism, not everything is precise, and the songs get their atmosphere and shape just as much as it needs and it is really great!
RECOMMENDATION
This album has everything and it has to be respected, because it is hard that this music story could be missed and omitted anyway. Everything around this album took place spontaneously and after studying sessions everyone was satisfied and at the end of the "Tricks of the Trade" Malcolm Holcombe sounds so "cool".
This is how others hear and describe: “The Fans of Waits, White, Ray Wylie Hubbard, James McMurtry and other tribadours of the troubled should naturally gravity at Holcombe’s distinctive wordsmithing and Tough, Blue Storage are easy on par with the timing of his peers.” - American Songwriter.
“There is no sense of the article. Every note counts, every line is worn, and his rumbling, crumbling baritone tosses and judgments, squeezing every last spark from their smouldering fire.”
Find out more about this:
www.malcolmholcombe.com
www.facebook.com/malcolmholcombe
www.twitter.com/malcolmholcombe
www.gpromopr.com
List of songs:
1. Money Train (4:38)
2. Misery Loves Company (3:27)
3. Into the Sunlight (2:38)
4. Crazy Man Blues (3:57)
5. Your China (3:44)
6. Damn Rainy Day (3:52)
7. Higher Ground (4:20)
8. Good Intentions (4:16)
9. He Tennessee Land (2:19)
10. Lenora Cynthia (2:36)
11. Tricks of the Trade (3:59)
12. Windows of Amsterdam (3:36) CD-ONLY BONUS TRACK
13. Shaky Ground (3:35)
(NEED TO KNOW MUSIC / G Promo PR)
Your bluesy,
Mladen Loncar - Mike