Chris
Wilson looks like someone you wouldn't mess with. He sounds like
someone you'd trust your life to. After the raw, electric 'Spiderman'
album Chris' new record returns him to the gentle mix of gospel,
blues and country that is Chris Wilson's special forte. The hardest
thing in music is to develop something uniquely your own, and Chris
has done that. His songs speak with the lessons of hardship. The
people that populate his songs are workers, struggling with their
lot. They live at truck stops and in timber towns. He speaks of
them with compassion and warmth, romanticising them with powerful
images, painting their lives as the most beautiful and meaningful
you could come across, fragile and precious to behold. Chris Wilson
is also a story-teller, a poet. These people and their world are
in his imagination. Although there's a lot of detail in his songs,
you never feel you could get out a roadmap and travel the same road.
Chris Wilson, his songs, and his stories exist in some magic place.
All this is done with a gentle, caressing voice, so incongruous
coming out of Chris' large working man frame. The songs are immediately
familiar, instantly opening their doors to the journeys within,
rich in melody as well as lyrical strength. The album's final track
'Look Out Love' celebrates in a traditional rockabilly workout.
(Forge Records - www.chriswilson.com.au)
Chris
Wilson looks like someone you wouldn't mess with. He sounds like
someone you'd trust your life to. After the raw, electric 'Spiderman'
album Chris' new record returns him to the gentle mix of gospel,
blues and country that is Chris Wilson's special forte. The hardest
thing in music is to develop something uniquely your own, and Chris
has done that. His songs speak with the lessons of hardship. The
people that populate his songs are workers, struggling with their
lot. They live at truck stops and in timber towns. He speaks of
them with compassion and warmth, romanticising them with powerful
images, painting their lives as the most beautiful and meaningful
you could come across, fragile and precious to behold. Chris Wilson
is also a story-teller, a poet. These people and their world are
in his imagination. Although there's a lot of detail in his songs,
you never feel you could get out a roadmap and travel the same road.
Chris Wilson, his songs, and his stories exist in some magic place.
All this is done with a gentle, caressing voice, so incongruous
coming out of Chris' large working man frame. The songs are immediately
familiar, instantly opening their doors to the journeys within,
rich in melody as well as lyrical strength. The album's final track
'Look Out Love' celebrates in a traditional rockabilly workout.
(Forge Records - www.chriswilson.com.au)