Excellent Qualities Of The New Delphinium CD

By Jerry Collins


People who came late into the current music world have created the most memorable works, and many of them have moved on to become well known. All sorts of people, young and old, are creating the most pleasing sounds, age being ethereal in a world ruled by YouTube and online sites. Many were waylaid and came back to music, while others have come into the picture quite late.

One person who has wide experience of the world is the artist Dean Maser. His road was longer than others had, but he made his way back into making music after attending a hootenanny open mic session, which led to the making of Delphinium CD. Lucky are those who have accessed the album.

In the spirit of James Taylor and the Depression era song Wandering, Maser has become something of a modern definer of wandering blues minstrelsy. He has followed the footsteps of masters like Bob Dylan, creator of a now accepted standard for wisdom in both music and literature. Plus, he creates a visually oriented kind of music a la Grant Wood with this album.

Delphinium is a way into seeing a legend filled world which partakes of spiritualism in the American West and the wide open skies of the Midwestern plains. The title is derived from the flower of the same name, which horticulturists know to bloom late, around June or July. This summer flower is broadly distributed, from the meadows to the uplands of pine.

He started out with church music, ukeleles and guitar and the song Kumbayah is deeply imprinted like a bad and unwanted tattoo on his soul. Perhaps it took those years away from music to make him shake of the early influence and come to see a real spirituality in nature and the world. He goes on to say that he really went for the prize in high school and ended up making a 3 record EP that not one person heard.

The musical artist also blogs, and this one is named The Good Ancestor, a deep reflection on influences and musical roots. He has traced the deepest roots for his art. As an artist, he has thus become awake from all these years of study, something his first album expresses well.

Maser also has a band named SoulShine, composed of himself and another two, creating the classic blues trio. They are currently making a new album that ranges across the idiom. From the hoedown days of BB King, to the electric soulfulness of ZZ Top, to the more straightforward playing of Cash and to distinct styles of Clapton, Hendrix and Dylan.

From Boston to Minneapolis, he has recorded this new album with musicians from Africa and North Dakota. He is taking a stand for all kinds of influences that have become native to his work. However, all the elements that make up the Blues as it was first sung to Old Man River himself are there, evidenced in songs of the album.

The titles of songs on the list are Heroes, One Time, Strong Love and Heart Be True, among others. Also included are the title track, Easy to Bleed and Gypsy Woman, songs with strong reminders of blues traditions. Because that is what is all about, of Christians suffering things straight out of Bible history, about things so deep that the thought of them creates a well of tears.




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