Words by Anselm Anderson
Grammy Award winning Singer/Songwriter, instrumentalist, Actor and Author Rick Springfield releases his first blues album with The Snake King via Frontiers Music SRL.
The singer, best known for 1980’s number 1 hit Jessie’s Girl, returns with his 19th studio album, which promises to deliver a dark and gritty trek down the blues road.
The Snake King is filled with reflective lyrics and raw emotions that incorporate rock ‘n’ roll, Chicago blues and country, which may surprise long-time fans. Springfield presents an album that is difficult to dissect any bad tracks from, with lyrical content that touches on depression and religion.
Track Land of the Blind is a country ballad of current affairs that’s rich with a warm vocal, before the album explodes with Little Demon. An upbeat blues-laden track drenched in soul, it’s a beautifully layered song that allows some exploration of virtuoso guitar breaks. The album keeps evolving in this way, with emotive songs in a similar in style.
Offering more melodic tracks further in, full of the angst of an embittered man with the hostile Santa is an Anagram, a rockabilly number replete with dark humour. Closer Orpheus in the Underworld is a piano centric ode to corruption soaked in harmonica and stark imagery.
This is an impressive, story-telling album from Rick and should stand proudly in your collection as a memoir of a man with a mystical and melancholic history.
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