MP3 Kevin Hughes - Songs from the Roof

A marriage of folk-rock and acoustic-driven pop that is reminiscent of LA singer-songwriters

5 MP3 Songs
FOLK: Folk Pop, ROCK: Folk Rock



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People tell me how much they like the title of this CD. âSongs from the Roof,â one friend remarked, is such a great metaphor for looking back over oneâs life and seeing the remnants of joy, romance, angstâboth real and imaginedâand musings about what life is all about. And itâs more autobiographical than I would sometimes like to admit; in my teens, as a burgeoning musician, I used to escape the family by climbing up on the roof with my first guitar. In this perch, I spent long hours inventing songs and exploring the mysteries of the guitar.

The CD begins with âAnyone Can Tell You.â Nothing too intellectual; just a sincere lyric about the luck of the draw, so to speak, of finding the person with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. I had great fun arranging the vocals to weave in an out of the melody. The inspiration was definitely from Lennon and McCartneyâs final, Abbey Road period. âIn Another Townâ echoes the quiet desperation of wanting to start over in a new place, with a clean slate, where no body can see through to your heart. (A friend of mine once said of this song, âyou donât need to be an outlaw to understand this desire; this notion hits most of us at least once in a lifetime.â) Ron Sodos' pedal steel, which conjures up the sounds of Pocoâs Rusty Young, really cries on this tuneâespecially during the solo.

Most piano ballads are romantic. But my own ballad, âThese Two Hands,â describes the arc or a personâs lifeâfrom childhood, to adulthood, and to middle ageâusing the metaphor of hands, which convey so much in our roles as friends, parents, and lovers. âCity Lightsâ takes the listener to the rainy streets of Manhattan, and through the pages of an accidentally discovered diary.