STUCK? NEED HELP GETTING OUT OF A SINGING RUT
Learn how to do it, from those who already do it. Join host Elizabeth Tillotson and some highly informed guests as we dissect the pleasures, pay offs and and challenges of working in the world of singing. Unnecessary tangents a given.
What is your drummer thinking?
Drummers. This animated lot sit in their hardware cage rattling around with things that go doof, ting and clack. Possibly as far away in the musical spectrum from a singer as can be, they handle our clumsy efforts to communicate with good humoured tolerance - smiling patiently at the attempts to count in, the endless protests about it being ‘too loud’, and the continuous requests for “you know, something different”. Play with a good one and they will never let you fall. Somehow magicking up time out of nowhere when beats are dropped, or when we rush enthusiastically ahead in the bar.
In this episode we’re turning the tables and letting the drummers have their say. Hear it first hand from those that do about the pleasures of playing with us singers. And, oh okay, just where we could do better.
What is your bass player thinking?
In this episode we go deep into the inner thoughts of bass players. We may be there for some time.
“Good ole boot thumping” blues.
Julian-Why-Play-Just-One-Thing-When-You-Could-Play-Four-Burdock brings his exuberant energy to The Magnificent Singer Podcast.
Balancing vocals, guitar, harmonica, live loops and samples, Julian is, quite literally, a one man band. But this is no crooner sitting quietly in the corner; this is a performer who likes to be centre stage creating all the action. Enthusiasm rarely diminished, his solo performances are described as a mix of “good ole boot thumping” blues and soul, swamp, gypsy jazz and electronica. In these days of separation, we can’t wait to hear more.
Singer-composer, lyricist, guitarist, harmonica player Julian Burdock has written, performed and recorded with Beverley Knight, Jocelyn Brown, Dave Stewart (Eurythmics), SEAL, Kim Weston, Pee Wee Ellis and Fred Wesley (James Brown), JJ Milteau and Geno Washington. His blues band 24 PESOS perform widely in China, Japan, Russia, Canada and the USA, have released four critically acclaimed albums, and have been nominated ten times at the British Blues Awards.
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