Adult Contemporary Mainstream Pop Rock

12 MP3 Songs
POP: Pop, EASY LISTENING: Adult contemporary



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Hailing from the great Sunshine State, Jay Seidl is a born performer. He wears his influences on his sleeve unapologetically, and heâs absorbed and then painstakingly mastered a variety of pop/rock/country idioms. He grew up as a troubadour, performing songs about peopleâs everyday lives; and he hasnât lost sight of that as heâs matured as an artist.
Jay's strongest point on his self-titled debut disc, Singer Songwriter, is his understanding that great artists are defined by their versatility, not virtuosity. On âHollywood Daysâ, he gives a nod to Ray Davies while interpreting the theme in his own way â and we canât help but think Craig Fuller would be proud of âSomething âBout A Cowboyâ or âLoveâs Here To Stayâ. âBeach Lifeâ conflates the New Wave tension of The Cars and Blondie with the laid back Floridian sensibilities of Jimmy Buffett, and has a nice looping guitar lead as a bonus. He manages to incorporate the sounds of CSN, Roger McGuinn, Gram Parsons, and even Robyn Hitchcock in subsequent tracks. Seidl offers a compelling bid to become the successor to another late and lamented great, Lowell George, as the custodian of all thatâs good and pure about Southern music, and that would be a good thing.
Singer Songwriter opens with âGrand Manâ, a tribute to John Lennon, one of his early influences. The track is complimented by a truly gorgeous and sensitive video. The clip is all stills and dissolves featuring John, and it is a very moving clip, to say the least. Johnâs death diminished us all, and the song and the video capture that in a way that hasnât been done before. Say what you want about Elvis, or Michael Jackson, or anyone elseâ¦THE most important and influential rocker of all time was John Lennon, and this is a fitting tribute.
The term singer songwriter is often used as an unapologetically broad stroke to define many artists of wildly diverse sounds, all the while never pinpointing the quintessential "singer songwriter". Make no mistake, however, by combining all of these influences, Jay Seidl has crafted a sound that is all his own, and his music is accessible to a very wide spectrum of listeners. This Singer Songwriter takes cues from the best, and the end result is a collection of songs that has something for everyone, and displays Jay Seidl's skill, passion, and precision for his own music.


Tags: pop