Reverend Freakchild Bare Bones
Reverend Freakchild
Bare Bones
Treated and Released Records
This is the Reverend Freakchild’s 18th album, recorded in Boulder Colorado. It is performed on a national resonator guitar. It is a 2 CD set including live rendition’s of songs from last year’s, “Songs Of Beauty For Ashes Of Realization”, played solo. The Rev. opens with “All I Got Is Now”, a lesson in bluesy Buddhism as he sings “yesterday’s are history, tomorrows are a mystery, all I got is now, but I keep forgetting that somehow”. Also included is, “Odds, Ends & Interviews”, a second bonus disc, ending with a twenty-eight minute Spiritual Warrior Chant!.
The Rev. has recorded with many amazing musicians including Chris Parker, Hugh Pool, Mark Karan, Melvin Seals, Jay Collins, The Reverend Shawn Amos, and the Grammy nominated G. Love. He has played in many bands including the psychedelic Jam band Bananafish, The Soul Miners,The Lucky Devils, The Lost Get Back Boogie Band, and The Cosmic All-Stars. The Rev’s music has been featured in many TV programs and commercials. The Rev grew up in Hawaii and holds a degree in philosophy and religion from Northeastern University in Boston. He now resides in Colorado. The Rev is a.k.a. The Reverend Fordham and by a bunch of other names including Lovechild, Freakwater, Freakshow, Freakease, and Voodoochile.
“Dial It In” is a road song, with the lyric “gonna drive ’til I get lost and found again, gonna turn on the radio and dial it in”. “All Across America”, “is that me in the mirror, oh lord what have I become, yes I do believe that’s the dude that I’ve been running from”. “Hippy Bluesman Blues” is a shuffle about a bad Frisco trip “there ain’t no problems only solutions, think I’m gonna join the revolution, I got the hippie bluesman blues”. “Amsterdam Blues” is twice reprised as it first appeared on 2001’s debut album “just grooving in Amsterdam, trying to get my senses satisfied, sex and smoke everywhere, think you went to heaven and died”. “Tears of Fire”, “she got words in her hand, well it seems she’s always got her tongue wrapped around the name of another man”.
Other song highlights include “Skyflower”, the desolate “Don’t Miss Nothing ‘Til It’s Gone”, and a re-arranged version of the Grateful Dead’s “Keep On Truckin” inspired by the legendary bluesman Blind Boy Fuller and the Grateful Dead’s psychedelic lyricist Robert Hunter.
The Reverend Freakchild considers music his religion. He states both the blues and Buddhism “can be seen as ways of confronting reality and the truth of human suffering, “I seek transcendence through song”. Check out The Reverend Freakchild.
Richard Ludmerer
Contributing Editor/Making A Scene
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