Next album will be blusier

[Miguel]

Blues rock is a musical genre combining bluesy improvisations over the twelve-bar blues and extended boogie jams with rock and roll styles. The core of the blues rock sound is created by the electric guitar, piano, bass guitar and drum kit, with the electric guitar usually amplified through a tube guitar amplifier, giving it an overdriven character.

The style began to develop in the mid-1960s in Britain and the United States. UK Bands, such as The Rolling Stones and The Animals and American bands such as the Butterfield Blues Band and the Siegel–Schwall Band, experimented with music from the older American bluesmen, like Albert King, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, and B.B. King.

While the early blues rock bands "attempted to play long, involved improvisations which were commonplace on jazz records," by the 1970s, blues rock got heavier and more riff-based. By the "early '70s, the lines between blues rock and hard rock were barely visible", as bands began recording rock-style albums. In the 1980s and 1990s, blues rock acts returned to their bluesy roots, and some of these, such as the Fabulous Thunderbirds and Stevie Ray Vaughan, flirted with rock stardom."

SRV "Texas Flood:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWLw7nozO_U

Thunderbirds "Tuff Enough:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhlOjmwHXU

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I bet Haley is thinking more along the lines of Alabama Shakes.

Alabama Shakes "Hold On:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-3MIBxQTw

Alabama Shakes "I ain't the Same:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvLDQPc5Whw

And possibly ZZ Ward (Chiara's friend).

ZZ Ward "Put the Gun Down:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5chkHjTNFgk

[Reinharted♥]

Aja!I believe that greater things are in store for Haley and the Haliens as well!

[Tom22]

It will be interesting to see what Haley, who had a hard time connecting with the downer aspect of Undone, comes up with on a blues-ier focused album. Although there are some upbeat blues driven rock songs the blues in general is not an upbeat genre. It will be fun to listen to songs in which she blends upbeat with a blues undertone.

I'd call blues the most liberating music around.. and what can be more ubpeat than something liberating.

Boy it would take me a doozy of an essay to delve into my theories of the whys to my opinion.

But go to a blues festival and people are loving life at a very deep level. A battered leather jacket , with its aroma feel and warmth is blues. versus a $400 gortex fleece lined most recent cut of Northface jacket alternative (or Coach, or dulce gabana or other legitimately high quality but certainly convetted and fashionable to a point of distraction).

Blues isn't a hippy thing because its not about protest or eschewing the fancy by trying to look different as a statement.. its just about damn despite all these things you can list going wrong around you, you're glad you've that old leather jacket that might not make you look so well to do sure is about as warm and comfortable as you can get and you're happy with that little secret.

The leather jacket is just one spin.. but whatever the spin its about dealling with the hand you got and looking for some good somewhere you can hang some hope on. No place to go but up..?

[Miguel]

Comment from Adele when she was being interviewed about her debut album, 19.

“What I particularly like about soul and blues is its honesty, sincerity and depth. While with pop, though you do have the entertainment factor, when you scratch away the surface there`s very little underneath. Whereas with soul you can constantly trawl through it and find great new things. To me the most important thing, in terms of longevity is to be REAL in your music. And soul and blues are filled with real, proper emotions.

[alpha7388]

Holy Post Miguel.

[Himm2]

yes thanks for all the clarifications Miguel.
What is more upbeat than "Sweet Home Chicago" Blues can be much more upbeat than most Country Songs, which all lack depth - except for some religious ones - but even those get monotonous.

[rmd1064]

I am so glad to hear that Haley is planning to move in the bluesy/rock direction and her voice is so perfect for that genre. And many of the songs on "Listen Up" are already ready-made for a more bluesy style. God bless her Chicago roots!

My big hope for 2013 is she gets signed to a label that agrees with her vision and SUPPORTS HER!!!! And, she finds a seasoned BAND of musicians who want to follow her in that direction (hopefully the band has some horns...) And, they need to launch a real tour to support her new CD. Play some small to midsize clubs and music festivals. Start playing some 1 1/2 to 2 hour shows. Get that experience performing live with a band... And just knock people's socks off with killer live performances....

Fingers crossed!

[Himm2]

I think Haley should kick off a new album with a cover of this Bluesy song:

Funny Stuff huh!?!?!

[Tom22]

Comment from Adele when she was being interviewed about her debut album, 19.

“What I particularly like about soul and blues is its honesty, sincerity and depth. While with pop, though you do have the entertainment factor, when you scratch away the surface there`s very little underneath. Whereas with soul you can constantly trawl through it and find great new things. To me the most important thing, in terms of longevity is to be REAL in your music. And soul and blues are filled with real, proper emotions.

Great quote.

Thanks for finding it and sharing it with us Miguel.

One thing I (personally) feel Adele is missing from her sound is the sense of "swagger", or a bit of a strut, or , if not quite defiance, a warm resolve not to let the pain overcome you and to reach the possiblities beyond.

I don't want to knock Adele too much on that. If you read her lyrics, they do take in that blues convention of painting a positve, even if the positive painted is one that wasn't necessarily achieved.

Haley sung Adele's song "rolling in the deep" with more of that sort of attitude that I like and even anticipate or expect in blues.

When Haley sings "there's a fire "We could of had it all" ... perhaps it's very subtle, but it glares out to me ... the tinge of bitterness with Adele. Bit difference between "It sucks what you did" and "You suck for what you did" at least in my mind.

Listen to how BB King sings the line (picking out what could be contrued as the most negative part)
"you're going to be sorry one day" .. which could easily be sung with bitterness and would be by most artists the last 30 years would sing it with bitterness. But he sings it as a statement that is more about the "her" missing out on the future ... not as "getting what you deserve" attack.

To me, that's what blues is. And the rest of the song.. especially the instrumentals, seem like a positive dreaming ... and Adele gets the deep examination of things right but I think misses slightly in degree with the positive outlook inherent in the laments (because a lament ... not a saccharine (artificially sweet) superficial happyness but an appreciation of the intricate, with each low contrasted with a high, each open more minor chord, resolved (a chord resolve is a musical way of closing a complexity examined)




"The thrill is gone" on its surface, seems like a downer, yet to me, the song is about healing and going forward. I could see the kid singers spitting out the line with a vile which if you listen to bb isn't the point.

"free free free..."

"now that it's over, all I can do is wish you well"

Haley gets that part of blues.. and infuses some of the attitudes in all of her songs. It's one of the reasons I love her.

None of that contradicts the comments Adele has, but augments them.

[Miguel]

Mai neim is Carlos ‏@HaleysGrrrowl

@robkleiner are you gonna work with Haley Reinhart on her 2nd album. It'd be awesome cause your songs are some of the best.!

Rob Kleiner ‏@robkleiner
@HaleysGrrrowl thank you... there's an answer to that question, but i'm not sure if i'm allowed to say it.