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 Will Sexton (from the album Don’t Walk the Darkness available on Big Legal Mess Records)
For his first solo recording in a decade, Will Sexton channels the diverse sounds of his adopted home of Memphis on his recent release, Don’t Walk the Darkness. The Texas native gave up a long-time musical base in Austin for Tennessee, relocating to Memphis in 2013, setting up a home with fellow musician and wife Amy LaVere as well as directing the house band for Big Legal Mess Records and Bible & Tire Recording Company. The mood and melodies of Don’t Walk the Darkness move on an easy current when “Witness” drifts lazily as the album dances on accordion breaths for “Don’t Take It From Me” and causes the psychedelic waves of “Mess Around with My Mind” to crash against the pleas of Will Sexton for a bit of distraction. A deep musical history had an effect on Will Sexton, the songman feeling that ‘Memphis is an important part of what I’ve become. I’ve been able to immerse myself and tune my ear to what makes this place so magical — and it’s really about the amazing musicians here. Most of my life I’ve complicated things musically. But, nowadays, I have a different approach: it’s less cerebral, and more about gut and soul’. Will Sexton makes promises on the Rock’n’Soul of “Only Forever”, The Sensational Barnes Brothers cradling the pledge in warm harmonies as a blacktop beat drives “What My Baby Don’t Know” and Don’t Walk the Darkness answers “Temptation’s Call” with uptown horns and Rock’n’Roll guitars. The musical force behind the songs of Will Sexton on Don’t Walk the Darkness can be credited to New Orleans, Louisiana legends The Iguanas. The band has been a longtime favorite of Will Sexton, who recalled that ‘The Iguanas were always a fixture at the Continental Club in Austin and I would go see them and was just a big fan. I felt like this record would be the perfect opportunity to collaborate with them. They’re such a natural entity, like this powerful train that glides itself along the track. That meant I only had to worry about singing and playing a little guitar’. Slow dance Rock’n’Roll is the perfect vehicle for Will Sexton as he becomes the heart-throb crooner beckoning towards demi-monde darkness in “Oh the Night (Night Owl Calls)”. The album enters on the rumble of its first cut, the album title referencing track, “Don’t Walk the Darkness (Through the Day)”, and exits on the other side of a sunset showcasing cascading clouds of sonics and a rolling love story in “Fall in Straight View”. Listen and buy the music of Will Sexton from AMAZON Visit the Will Sexton website for more information
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