victor wainwright memphis loud

​Victor Wainwright and The Train (from the album Memphis Loud available on Ruf Records)
Hanging on around the curves, the Memphis Loud title tune barrels down the tracks, Victor Wainwright the master-of-ceremonies conductor guiding the melody as the rhythm rails hum. All are welcome on board as Victor Wainwright steers his recent release, Memphis Loud, through an assortment of American sounds, soaking the Soul ballad “Disappear” in a Blue wash, navigating heartache with a boatload of hope gushing like flood waters through “Creek Don’t Rise”, strutting like a street parade in “Walk the Walk”, and searching for the right words to bring all sides to the table for “America”. Taking his cues from the soundtrack to the great American songbook, Victor Wainwright shuffles through styles on Memphis Loud, wrapping his words in a spinning wheel of Roots, Americana, Soul, Funk, Blues, and Jazz jams.
 
Happy with the man in the mirror, Victor Wainwright gives a shout out to better days in “Recovery”, peppering “Sing” with a Dixieland spices, calmly reminding of kindness over the triphammer percussion in “Golden Rule”, and hopping on a rumbling rhythm to ride “South End of a North Bound Mule”. Boogie and Blues leapfrog across Memphis Loud, Victor Wainwright the student as much as teacher for the sound styles, knowing that ‘I like to produce and write with immense musical curiosity, leaving no roots stone unturned, but pushing the art-form forward. I carry with me the lessons from my grandfather, who taught me piano, and countless hours studying the roots of blues, genuine rock ‘n’ roll, jazz, boogie-woogie and honky-tonk, all the while honestly developing that into something modern, fun, unique, emotional and powerful’. Notes playfully gather at the entry to Memphis Loud, coming together under the banner of the beat for opening cut “Mississippi”, Victor Wainwright exiting the album on the sweeping gospel-flecked salvational stomp of “Reconcile”.
 
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