Post by Duchess of Lashes on Mar 16, 2007 17:02:18 GMT -5
In honor of the Irish spirit, on the eve of St. Patrick's day....
Long before there was Bocelli or Frangoulis, there was DeBurgh. I stumbled across him quite by accident, drawn by a poster in the window of Sam the Record Man. The cover art for The Getaway was so compelling, I decided to buy the "album." Three decades and twenty-four CD's later, I am still a huge DeBurgh fan. Thankfully for his fans, he is still turning them out. His latest effort, The Storyman, I consider to be one of his absolute best.
The thing that has always set his music apart from other artists, at least in my eyes, has been his ability to weave a tale through his songs. The visuals he creates with his words and his heart are vivid. This newest release is a little different in that he has actually included a small storybook which details the background story to each of the songs.
This is a sample taken from one of those stories to the song The Grace of a Dancer:
This story begins in a small Cornish fishing village - carts clatter across the cobblestones, laden with fresh produce. Fisherman offload their catch, the busy sounds of everyday life fill the air. A pretty young girl of sixteen gets ready to go out, her mother fussing around her, adjusting her dress, fixing her bonnet, shining the brass buckles on her shoes. Today, she will begin work as a parlormaid at the big house up on the hill, where the Squire and his wife and their teenage son reside, bound up in their world of country pursuits, a far cry from her own humble background.
She soon blends in with the daily routine, scrubbing pans, making beds, helping the cook, washing clothes and other menial duties. One day, whilst carrying a basket of linen up the stairs, she chanced upon the young man of the house; although she averted her eyes, he talked gently to her; and almost at once, they both felt a powerful connection between them and over the next few weeks and regardless of their relative positions of wealth and class, the spark that had begun soon became a genuine flame of love.
If you are at all interested in checking out some snippets from the Storyman, you can find them here - I hope this link works:
www.cdeb.net/albumplayer.htm
The CD is available through Amazon.com - unfortunately at import CD prices though.
Long before there was Bocelli or Frangoulis, there was DeBurgh. I stumbled across him quite by accident, drawn by a poster in the window of Sam the Record Man. The cover art for The Getaway was so compelling, I decided to buy the "album." Three decades and twenty-four CD's later, I am still a huge DeBurgh fan. Thankfully for his fans, he is still turning them out. His latest effort, The Storyman, I consider to be one of his absolute best.
The thing that has always set his music apart from other artists, at least in my eyes, has been his ability to weave a tale through his songs. The visuals he creates with his words and his heart are vivid. This newest release is a little different in that he has actually included a small storybook which details the background story to each of the songs.
This is a sample taken from one of those stories to the song The Grace of a Dancer:
This story begins in a small Cornish fishing village - carts clatter across the cobblestones, laden with fresh produce. Fisherman offload their catch, the busy sounds of everyday life fill the air. A pretty young girl of sixteen gets ready to go out, her mother fussing around her, adjusting her dress, fixing her bonnet, shining the brass buckles on her shoes. Today, she will begin work as a parlormaid at the big house up on the hill, where the Squire and his wife and their teenage son reside, bound up in their world of country pursuits, a far cry from her own humble background.
She soon blends in with the daily routine, scrubbing pans, making beds, helping the cook, washing clothes and other menial duties. One day, whilst carrying a basket of linen up the stairs, she chanced upon the young man of the house; although she averted her eyes, he talked gently to her; and almost at once, they both felt a powerful connection between them and over the next few weeks and regardless of their relative positions of wealth and class, the spark that had begun soon became a genuine flame of love.
If you are at all interested in checking out some snippets from the Storyman, you can find them here - I hope this link works:
www.cdeb.net/albumplayer.htm
The CD is available through Amazon.com - unfortunately at import CD prices though.
