Melodic vocals and great guitar, inspired by Robben Ford and Steve Winwood.

7 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Soul-Blues, ROCK: Acoustic

Details:
Higher Heaven came about from some of the songs left off " a winding bend " that I had written in Bali. The rest I wrote on piano although the instrumentation on the album is mainly guitar, bass, drums. I invited drummer and life long friend Gerard Pigram from the original "Open up the letter " album to play. My manager suggested that we record that particular song again as for this time we had a better budget to record and the original " Open up the letter " was recorded in a house in Coogee. Bass player and friend Rob Ewan played on " Souls of the streets " and " Tied down ", two of my favourite tracks. The rest I played bass on only because compositional I new where I wanted to take it. Scott Aplin playing keyboard on the last track and always plays great. I had been doing a few gigs with him prior to recording and fell in love with his sound and passion at gigs. He's a pleasure to play with, great feel, melodic and with chops to burn.

The album itself was recorded in two locations, Big Buda studio's in Surry hills and my own home studio. The rhythm sections were recorded by Dave Russel at Big Buda and the rest was overdubbed in my Studio at home. It's very easy doing recordings like these, where you have the luxury of time on your side. The next recording I'm looking to doing it all live. I recently added a few live performances I did in Bali on You tube from two gigs. One was in 2006 and the other was 2007. Theres always a few more magic moments in live recordings like these and its all so spontaneous which is great. My next project will be something to that effect... Live, Bluesy and lots of room for improvisations from the musicians.

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