DYLAN LEBLANC ~ Coyote
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Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the Americana oeuvre – this is his fifth album in the 13 years since the release of his debut. Nice voice – a high tenor with a sort of Fleet Foxes x Neil Young kinda vibe. I’m thinking Laurel Canyon meets Louisiana meets Tex Mex and the digital age - consommé rather than soup though! And holding steady on the melody front.
He seems to have gleaned most of his musical ‘education’ in the school of hard knocks but with his home territory being Muscle Shoals, Alabama, it must surely have been fertile ground! He’s been at the biz since the age of 15 and is 33 years old now. He’s opened for a number of class acts and collaborated with several, as well as having been mentored by some musos who really do know what they’re about. It’s my not so humble opinion that if he keeps going and hangs on to that luminosity and what is currently a signature sound, there might be some lasting, meaty stuff forthcoming a bit further down the line.
I’d pick up this album – I like the fusion he’s achieved (not as in jazz). There’s a good, unhurried tempo and nowhere does he try to be too clever - he exercises deliberation and that all important element of restraint, even on the fairly funky (with a philosophical bent) “Crowd Goes Wild” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hye8rMQdnOo . A slow burner, methinks. Americana with a story which holds the album together and about which you can read more here … https://www.dylanleblanc.com/story-copy
The title track ...
Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the Americana oeuvre – this is his fifth album in the 13 years since the release of his debut. Nice voice – a high tenor with a sort of Fleet Foxes x Neil Young kinda vibe. I’m thinking Laurel Canyon meets Louisiana meets Tex Mex and the digital age - consommé rather than soup though! And holding steady on the melody front.
He seems to have gleaned most of his musical ‘education’ in the school of hard knocks but with his home territory being Muscle Shoals, Alabama, it must surely have been fertile ground! He’s been at the biz since the age of 15 and is 33 years old now. He’s opened for a number of class acts and collaborated with several, as well as having been mentored by some musos who really do know what they’re about. It’s my not so humble opinion that if he keeps going and hangs on to that luminosity and what is currently a signature sound, there might be some lasting, meaty stuff forthcoming a bit further down the line.
I’d pick up this album – I like the fusion he’s achieved (not as in jazz). There’s a good, unhurried tempo and nowhere does he try to be too clever - he exercises deliberation and that all important element of restraint, even on the fairly funky (with a philosophical bent) “Crowd Goes Wild” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hye8rMQdnOo . A slow burner, methinks. Americana with a story which holds the album together and about which you can read more here … https://www.dylanleblanc.com/story-copy
The title track ...
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