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Sunday 19 February 2017

Delphinium CD And Its Amazing Blues Power

By Jerry Collins


Some persons discover music later than most, and there are those who have created great music or have continued to great success. Whether young or old, many are know making excellent music, and no age rules apply to a scene that is mostly online with sites like YouTube. A lot of these started out early and got lost and came back again, and others started out at a mature age.

One of those who have had the longish journey rediscovered his musician self in an open mic hootenanny. From this, he reaccessed the world and made an album distinguished by mature thought and inspiration in Delphinium CD. People who have discovered Dean Maser will be pleasantly surprised by this CD.

In the spirit of James Taylor and the Depression era song Wandering, Maser has become something of a modern definer of wandering blues minstrelsy. He has followed the footsteps of masters like Bob Dylan, creator of a now accepted standard for wisdom in both music and literature. Plus, he creates a visually oriented kind of music a la Grant Wood with this album.

Delphinium defines his path into a world that has become legendary in America, defined by spiritualism and the great green plains and the distant mountains of the West. This title comes from the Delphinium flower, which grows in the months of June and July, a late blooming flower. Its range, though, is vast, from the mountain valleys down to grassland meadows.

His family belonged to a church, and it was the kind of music he made with guitars and ukeleles, and Kumbuyah is like a bad dream to him. All the years spent wandering the music world made the affliction apparent, and he has now lived that down and proceeded to discovering real spirituality. He says how high school made him drive for the works with a 3 song record that no one know will ever hear.

The musician is also a blogger, and his blog is entitled The Good Ancestor, which is a rumination about roots ethereal or real. It is about the history of his music. The artist in him has finally taken everything in stride and this shows clearly in this first full length album he has made.

Maser also has a band named SoulShine, composed of himself and another two, creating the classic blues trio. They are currently making a new album that ranges across the idiom. From the hoedown days of BB King, to the electric soulfulness of ZZ Top, to the more straightforward playing of Cash and to distinct styles of Clapton, Hendrix and Dylan.

From Boston to Minneapolis, he has recorded this new album with musicians from Africa and North Dakota. He is taking a stand for all kinds of influences that have become native to his work. However, all the elements that make up the Blues as it was first sung to Old Man River himself are there, evidenced in songs of the album.

Song titles include Heart Be True, Heroes, One Time and Strong Love. Others include the title track, Fall Apart and A Little Older, and you cannot help but notice their strong echoes of tradition. The Blues are all about tradition, about the travails of Biblical Christians and their replication in the American tradition, about love, life and death felt so deeply it opens up a spring of tears.




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