Sean McConnell

Skin

Silent Desert Music

This is Sean McConnell’s 15th Album. He is a sought after songwriter and collaborator with the likes of Brad Paisley, Tim McGraw, Little Big Town, Rascal Flatts and others. The album is co-produced by Sean, bassist Justin Tocket, keyboardist Ben Alleman, and guitarist Taylor McCall. The drummer is Logan Todd. The album is recorded at Silent Desert Music in Nolensville, Tennessee; mixed by Tocket at Dockside Studio, in Maurice, Louisiana; and Mastered by Brian Lucie, at Magic Garden Mastering, in Los Angeles California.

“Skin” opens with the title track, as McConnell sings “There’s no rest I can see, it almost took me forty-years to figure it out, the call was coming from inside the house…there is something in my soul I have to say…” Sean manages to explore life’s paradoxes without needing to find answers, leaving topics open ended for listeners to discover their own meaning.

“Demolition Day” is a reckoning song about Sean’s understated sobriety after a ‘come to Jesus’ moment. “The West Is Never Won” is a song that encourages his daughter, living with disabilities, to let her heart and soul guide her through life “brush up your love of Shakespeare”, with some steel drum type percussion provided by keyboardist Alleman. “Missing Person” is some more great piano and Hammond B-3 from Alleman.

On “Take It Easy Darlin'” Sean sings beautifully “take it easy darlin’, let me have the trouble off your mind” with more Hammond B-3. “Glasgow Rain” includes the lyric “storms on my window pane” with McCall on guitar. “Divinity” is another song of faith “for heaven entwining”. “Tonight every thing is gonna be ok, on the “Southside Of Forever”.

“Older Now” is a contradiction between seeing how far one’s come, while recognizing that it’s only part of the journey. “But I’ve got a ways to go, and in twenty years or so, oh, this man, I’ve come to know he will seem to me like a child”. “Never Enough” is an ode to his wife and soulmate Dr. Mary Susan McConnell. The closer “New Sons and Daughters” is yet another song of faith.

Sean states that “Skin” is about discovering that the journey inward, underneath the skin, is truly more expansive, perilous, and enlightening than any journey outward. If you let him Sean McConnell will get under your “Skin”.

Richard Ludmerer

Contributing Editor/Making A Scene

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