PODCAST: Stephen Fearing brings new music from Blackie and the Rodeo Kings

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Host Peter McCully chats with Stephen Fearing, the singer-songwriter who has loved each a profitable solo profession and member of ‘Blackie and the Rodeo Kings’ for greater than 25 years.

“At any time when we get again collectively, it’s proper again the place we left off,” stated Fearing. “And that’s outstanding after 27 years. We’ve been by means of divorces and rehab and demise, and we’ve watched one another develop previous and lose members of the family and we’ve misplaced band members. We’ve been by means of rather a lot and it’s nonetheless there. It’s nonetheless very robust. And every one in all us at this level cherishes it, I feel might be the suitable phrase.”

Fearing discusses the band’s distinctive sound, a mix of various kinds introduced collectively by the person strengths of the three vocalists within the band, Fearing, Tom Wilson and Colin Linden, and their potential to authentically cowl a variety of musical genres, from people to blues to rock, all whereas sustaining their very own distinctive model.

The episode explores their collaborative albums, Kings and Queens and Kings and Kings, the place the band labored with a various lineup of artists, together with Emmylou Harris and Vince Gill.

The podcast options the tune ‘O Glory, misplaced these blues once more’, from their newest album, Oh Glory, which was recorded remotely in the course of the pandemic. Fearing discusses the challenges of distant recording and the distinctive dynamics that allowed them to proceed making music regardless of bodily distance.

“There’s a sense of being in movement that all of a sudden was curtailed, and it forces one to sit down and mirror and suppose there’s nothing else to do,” stated Fearing. “It’s the job forward of you is to sit down nonetheless and discover ways to do this and be at peace with your self. There are songs on the album that immediately mirror that. I do consider it as a sort of religious feeling.”

Moreover, the dialog touches on Fearing’s experiences dwelling in numerous areas, together with Eire, Ontario, Victoria and Halifax, and the way every place has contributed to his perspective as a songwriter. He expresses his love for journey and the way it has influenced his artistic journey.

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