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Singer- songwriter, Americana, kampvuur? 


Nothing pressing is Jerry Leger‘s tenth studio album and his second for the Cowboy Junkies’ label. Like many others, this latest offering from the Toronto singer-songwriter is informed by the experience of the pandemic with its reflections on isolation, longing and gratitude, but also on the passing of one of his best friends.

Calling John Prine to mind, the simple strummed title track with Michael Timmons on ukulele gets the ball rolling. It is essentially a song about having time on your hands (“moved out into the country/but now I’m bored out of my mind”) and inertia (“The ceiling is peeling/And there’s something in the walls/But I got nothing pressing/To take me away from it all”). He cranks it up then for some ringing guitar on the nasally sung, and swaggery Dylan-tinged folk-rock Kill It With Kindness with its theme of depression (“I’ve seen what a mind can do/I’ve been through it before/Takes a grip of your happiness/And shoves you into the wall/I dull it down with alcohol/But then I feel more depressed/So I treat it like my worst enemy/And kill it with kindness”).

Inarguably downbeat, it charts a musical and personal journey that he says he hopes listeners will feel they can share. These are songs that give you the strength to come through on the other side.

Tracks:
1. Nothing Pressing (3:59)
2. Kill It With Kindness (2:19)
3. Recluse Revisions (3:31)
4. Wait a Little Longer (2:29)
5. Still Patience (3:37)
6. Underground Blues (3:07)
7. Have You Ever Been Happy? (3:18)
8. With Only You (2:55)
9. Sinking In (3:15)
10. A Page You've Turned (2:58)
11. Protector (3:53)

Staat er compleet op, 10% pars mee gepost. Met zeer veel dank aan de originele poster. Laat af en toe eens weten wat je van het album vindt. Altijd leuk, de mening van anderen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zig-O53rD0M&feature=emb_imp_woyt