Clayton Denwood - Sacred Heart Blues (2016)

Its something in the voice that catches at you first. You want to call it a high, lonesome sound, because thats how it lingers in the mind afterwards. But theresmore to it than that. For although this music is rooted firmly in the
rich loam of tradition, it didnt filter out from the ancient hills and hollows where that tradition began. No, it springs from a tough mind and a questing heart taking on the modern world in all of its ramifications the personal, the political, the body and the soul. It rings with the pure joy of making music and echoes with the darker tones that touch all true art: love gone wrong, last deals gone down, times effacements, the shadow of mortality.

Clayton Denwood is a singer-songwriter and first-rate musician whose work easily bears comparison to his great predecessors in that shining line. Here is a voice and a sound for the 21st century, for a world reeling drunkenly on the edge of the abyss, for an age where the human heart is under savage attack from every side. Into this arena steps a common man with an uncommon talent, with the courage to be, and to speak, and to not back down, to keep carving out a space where the soul can thrive in the middle of the raging storm…

TRACKLIST

01. Pretty One
02. Sacred Heart Blues
03. Do It for Me (I'll Do It All for You)
04. (I Ain't No) Stranger
05. Burning in Water (Drowning in Flame)
06. Only Just Begun
07. Sweetheart of the Wasteland
08. Toughtown Blues
09. Tryin' to Resist
10. Where Are You?