"Arizona / only knew you for one night / and New Mexico / it's been awhile..."
The vast emotional travelogue of "Arizona" by raw folk / Americana singer-songwriter Charlie Bishop appeals to my desire to be a nomad, to travel, drive, walk through spaces so large that I feel the smallness of my being. Not only do I feel that while listening to Bishop but it his is unique voice that helps me get there. Somehow the character of his voice feels nostalgic, a lone singer in front of an orchestra on The Glen Campbell Music Show in 1972 viewed on a small cathode ray television.
Of course, it is not only Bishop's voice but the way he uses it. Against evocative acoustic guitar, rolling thunder ambience, sparse piano notes, and a glowing burning sun of sound like the swell of a Church choir, he tells his story stretching out phrases, bitter words that he chews on before spitting them out. The thoughtful reflections dissected to me, at times, like a detective with demons in a Western noir novel. The lyrical gems are many and at a critical emotional juncture when Bishop sings "buried bones between your skin / I'm gonna flip the rocks I find / radio whispers from your mind / you gotta die before you die..." I feel the import of his storytelling, the sense that sometimes when you are all bruised and bloody from life beating the hell out of you is when you feel truly alive sipping hope slowly so you don't become too sick.
This is a song about driving through the American Southwest, capturing the emotions, memories, and passion that this place evokes in me. - charlie bishop
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Charlie Bishop makes raw Folk and Americana songs from his DIY basement studio. Drawing inspiration from the sounds of Nathaniel Rateliff & Gregory Alan Isakov and the storytellings of John Prine & Bruce Springsteen, his music reflects Northeastern roots and Western travels.
Charlie Bishop makes raw Folk and Americana songs from his DIY basement studio. Drawing inspiration from the sounds of Nathaniel Rateliff & Gregory Alan Isakov and the storytellings of John Prine & Bruce Springsteen, his music reflects Northeastern roots and Western travels.
Charlie Bishop, california, singer songwriter, Americana, folk, raw folk, vast orchestrations, DIY basement studio, unique, storyteller voice, emotional contexts, emotional travelogue of "Arizona",
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