Does he play flamenco guitar?
No, he’s a canta. A singer. He has this incredible, powerful, emotionally keening voice. This is the kinda guy I want to connect with. I’m basically the world-music geek of BSS. That’s why the production on my next Apostle record needs to be different. I need to connect with a different segment. It’s a bit of an obsession of mine. You have to realize that everyone comes from somewhere. I’ve just been thinking about that a lot these days. A lot of folks think that they can’t categorize Apostle into a genre, and I’m happy about that. It doesn’t mold into this or that. While I’m happy to be an outsider in those terms, I’m discovering that I can still lean on certain traditional musical structures or themes or forms that just work over and over and people respond to them. All I’ve been listening to this past week is Bob Dylan’s Live at the Gaslight 1962 and folk anthologies, and these things can be really instructive and helpful in crafting songs. In rock music over the past 20 years, who
