Blackeyed
Susans - Dedicated To The Ones We Love (Teardrop/Shock)
Sime
Nugent is the sort of songwriter you can listen to over and over,
and every time find something new, under the layers or according
to your own mood with each listen. This is Nugent's second album
with The Forefathers. He writes the songs, runs the show, but relies
very much on his musicians to carry out his goals. And it's taken
Sime Nugent some 12 years of music making to get to this point,
through two groups running concurrently - first the Acapelicas,
a three part harmony group singing unaccompanied, so unique they
traveled around the world, and a soul group called the Sedans. In
front of the Forefathers he drifts between the dynamics in subtlety
he discovered with the first, and the emotion that came with the
second. As a songwriter he adds the power of the storyteller. The
words are filled with images, meaning and feeling. The songs on
this album are mostly born out of a traumatic episode in his personal
life and its aftermath. In the break-up of a relationship, his daughter
was also removed from him. It's the child he misses still. The rest
he's moved on from. That's the undercurrent behind 'Undertow'. But
Sime Nugent is not your slashed wrists kind of songwriter. He's
a craftsman. He's an entertainer. He's done he's best to cover his
own tracks of how he got to this point so that the songs and the
album can stand on their own. We're not supposed to know or guess
what happened to him, only to react to the thoughts and emotions
he's drawn from the experience. The first song on the album is 'Happy
Man', where he ended up at the end of his own journey. We start
there, and then Sime Nugent draws us into his spell, his gentle
soulful voice in harmony with the Forefathers' trademark organ and
keyboards, accompanied by electric guitars, banjo and on several
track brass instruments. (DD Records/MGM)
Sime
Nugent is the sort of songwriter you can listen to over and over,
and every time find something new, under the layers or according
to your own mood with each listen. This is Nugent's second album
with The Forefathers. He writes the songs, runs the show, but relies
very much on his musicians to carry out his goals. And it's taken
Sime Nugent some 12 years of music making to get to this point,
through two groups running concurrently - first the Acapelicas,
a three part harmony group singing unaccompanied, so unique they
traveled around the world, and a soul group called the Sedans. In
front of the Forefathers he drifts between the dynamics in subtlety
he discovered with the first, and the emotion that came with the
second. As a songwriter he adds the power of the storyteller. The
words are filled with images, meaning and feeling. The songs on
this album are mostly born out of a traumatic episode in his personal
life and its aftermath. In the break-up of a relationship, his daughter
was also removed from him. It's the child he misses still. The rest
he's moved on from. That's the undercurrent behind 'Undertow'. But
Sime Nugent is not your slashed wrists kind of songwriter. He's
a craftsman. He's an entertainer. He's done he's best to cover his
own tracks of how he got to this point so that the songs and the
album can stand on their own. We're not supposed to know or guess
what happened to him, only to react to the thoughts and emotions
he's drawn from the experience. The first song on the album is 'Happy
Man', where he ended up at the end of his own journey. We start
there, and then Sime Nugent draws us into his spell, his gentle
soulful voice in harmony with the Forefathers' trademark organ and
keyboards, accompanied by electric guitars, banjo and on several
track brass instruments. (DD Records/MGM) 