Artist : Jonathan Wilson

Album : Dixie Blur

Release Date : 06-03-2020

Added : 05-04-2020

After 'Rare Birds' in 2018 which was a journey into pop tinged with progressive, 'Jonathan Wilson' returns with a new album, 'Dixie Blur', and this complete artist this time offers us compositions mixing his southern and country influences, and given the orientation of the album without any link with the previous one, the two country tracks he had released in 2019, 'So Alive' and 'Skinny Legs', were a glimpse of the atmosphere of the album but do not appear on 'Dixie Blur'.

And yet, he opens the album on three ballads, first of all 'Just For Love' which is a cover of the American psychedelic rock group 'Quicksilver Messenger Service' taken from the album 'Just For Love' released in 1970, then '69 Corvette' which do not really have a country style but, it is from 'New Home' which is also a ballad that the sounds integrate small gradually its country roots. The following scrolls through compositions typical of this American style such as the catchy ‘So Alive’ in which the violin mixes with the guitar, ‘In Heaven Making Love’ or ‘El Camino Real’. But it is in the quieter titles that 'Jonathan Wilson' takes us up the emotional cursor with remarkable titles like 'Oh Girl' and his remarkable psychedelic foray, 'Pirate' with his beautiful crescendo in the middle of the title, 'Enemies' close to the melodic lines of the Boss (see his latest album here), 'Fun for the Masses' which recalls the moods of 'Eagles' or even 'Riding The Blinds' with its acceleration in middle of the title to finish on the slow starting tempo, without forgetting 'Golden Apples' and 'Korean Tea', very classic but so effective.

In summary, this multi-faceted artist had delighted me with 'Rare Birds' and in another style, he offers us beautiful compositions to quietly taste, headphones on the ears, because 'Dixie Blur' brings up to date the great tradition of the American song for our greatest pleasure...

Line Up / Musicians

Jonathan Wilson (Vocal, Guitar, Keybords, Drums, Percussions, Mellotron, Vibraphone), Pat Sansone (Guitar, Bass, Mellotron, Choirs, Vibraphone) + Guests : Kenny Vaughan (Guitar), Mark O'Connor (Guitar, Violin), Russ Pahl (Guitar, Pedal Steel), Leslie Stevens (Choirs), Dennis Crouch (Bass, Bass), Jon Radford (Drums, Percussions), Jim Hoke (Saxophone, Harmonica, Flute, Clarinette), Joe Pisapia (Pedal Steel), Drew Erickson (Piano, Hammond)