Thursday, February 23, 2017

Excellent Qualities Of The New Delphinium CD

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.

A musician who took the longer road and found himself entering the world of recorded music is Dean Maser. He made the rediscovery one night during the open mic of a hootenanny and went on to record Delphinium CD. Those lucky enough to know him listen are in for a treat.

Maser has wandered around a bit, and he is entirely within the tradition of American blues minstrelsy, with many greats coming before him. There are many masters, and Dylan has been lately recognized with a Nobel in literature, a conundrum for all American music makers. Maser, though, has skipped into a unique space with a the visual and rural Gothic perspective in 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 musical roots was church music like Kumbayah from which he has recovered after years of struggle. His music with guitars and ukeleles is all the better for having exchanged the song with real spiritualism he found during the wandering and undecided years. In high school, he tried shooting the works with a band, recording a 3 part work that he says no one has ever heard or will every hear.

The musical artist also blogs, and this one is named The Good Ancestor, a deep reflection on influences and musical roots. He has traced the deepest roots for his art. As an artist, he has thus become awake from all these years of study, something his first album expresses well.

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 Minneapolis to Boston, he went into studios with players from as far as North Dakota and Africa. The stand he is making is for all the things he has learned and unlearned which define his auteur. But then, you can see how all things Blues are there in the album, dating to the first time the first Blues song was played to its patron Old Man River.

Titles in the album include Strong Love, Heroes, Heart Be True and One Time. The list also features the title track, A Little Older and The 1 Second Miracle, which are excellent takes on the tradition. And De Blues is nothing if not traditional, about all things Christian and Biblical inspiration on American soil, about feelings so vast and deep that only tears can express them.




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