“It’s not just about heartbreak or being addicted or your wife two-timing you, which is what most of them are written about,” says Wilson. “I love those really emotional, edgy songs.”įeeling her way around the more emotive covers, Robin Trower’s 1974 song ”Bridge of Sighs,” is a track Wilson considers one of the best blues songs ever written. “It’s such a heartbreaking, heart-wrenching story, and when you flip the gender around, when you become an observer watching this person walking the streets and trying to forget her but can’t, it’s just so hard,” says Wilson. “I never want to try to sound like the singer.”Ī longtime fan of Jeff Buckley, Wilson stayed true to Buckley’s feverish “Forget Her,” off his solo album Grace in 1994.
“I like to pay tribute to the original song always because that’s the soul of the song,” shares Wilson. Remaining faithful to the original melody of each song, the covers on Fierce Bliss were stories that have stuck to Wilson for some time. It’s just an ugly, primal part of human nature.” Even the war that’s happening right now in Europe is based on greed. “No one’s ever satisfied with what they have.
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“Politics and everything are just a prime example of greed in full swing and the materialistic nature of our culture,” says Wilson of the track. More politically driven, “Green” looked through the lens between the left and the right. “The world is still turning and flowing.” “‘As the World Turns’ was written from the same platform as ‘Crazy on You’ was where if you’re surrounded by the drama of life every day and the stresses of life, sometimes it can seem really high stress and suffocating but if you pull focus, and you come back and look at the big picture, you see that it’s really just us strutting and fretting, or our on the stage,” says Wilson. Recorded at Sound Stage in Nashville, and featuring a collection of guest musicians including Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Gov’t Mule’s Warren Haynes, Wilson dusted in her originals on Fierce Bliss, including the bluesy haze of “Fighten for Life,” and the heavier “Angel’s Blues,” “Gladiator,” and “A Moment in Heaven,” and the closing country-tipped “As the World Turns.”
“My mind became still and peaceful, and that’s what I need to write,” says Wilson, who went on to write several more for her new album Fierce Bliss, a collection of tracks informed by isolated thoughts and covers of songs that have lingered in Wilson’s life for years. That’s when I wrote ‘Black Wing,’ just wishing I could be up there too, able to go everywhere.”Īdapting to the forced isolation, the pandemic gave Wilson the setting she needed to write, away from the higher energy of touring.
“I started to feel so isolated and cut off from the rest of the world that these birds started to take on a new dimension for me,” Wilson tells American Songwriter. The natural world was still moving and evolving outside and after watching some of the frolicking seabirds in the distance for months, Wilson began anthropomorphizing the creatures, even talking to them, then writing the slow-burning “Black Wing.” See below for all of the currently announced shows for all the latest, visit /on-tour.Captured by the sweeping views and wildlife along St John’s River adjacent to her Florida home, Ann Wilson found some moments of solace living in quarantine during the pandemic. He tours the United States with songs from his previous album, The Call Within, in June. Tigran Hamasyan embarks on a tour of Europe with songs from the new album next week, with shows in Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Hungary. Also guesting on the album is saxophonist Mark Turner.
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Produced by Hamasyan, StandArt includes songs from the 1920s through the 1950s by Parker, Richard Rodgers, Jerome Kern, Elmo Hope, and others, plus a piece Hamasyan improvised with his bandmates-bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Justin Brown-and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. You can hear that version and the rest of the album here. Hamasyan performs the tune on the new album with saxophonist and label mate Joshua Redman. Pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan marked the release of his new album, StandArt-his first album of American standards-last Friday and International Jazz Day on the following day with a solo piano performance of Charlie Parker’s “Big Foot,” which you can watch below.