AtomicRoots

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Basically, I'm Chris Wilson, just a single dad in the valley, who's played music most of his life, and just can't stop. I've been in everything from college cover bands, to Ska Reggae bands, but I've spent most of my career (if you can call it that) fronting and playing harmonica in a string of Blues bands.(got another one lately ... AtomicMoan ... check it out ... great players ... and speaking of great players ... Scott Pontius, my partner from my last acoustic band, BurnDaddies, has now joined up and we're playing live AtomicRoots gigs ... watch for them!!)I built a PC, bought a Presonis Firebox, learned how to use Reason and Live, and started recording in my living room. What you hear here, are the results of that endeavor.AtomicRoots is the catchall for all of my musical projects, but it is much more than that. AtomicRoots is the philosophy that guides my musical direction these days, it is the germ, the "Atom" if you will, from which springs my current creative direction. Atomic represents all that the word implies, the basic building block, the futuristic energy source, mutation . and "Roots" refers not only to roots music but to nature and the organic, and deep foundations.So far that thought process is manifesting itself as the combination of synthetic/digital loops, sequences, synths etc, and analog, traditional, blues and roots instrumentation and sensibilities. The first real representation of the idea is found in "Silly Me" (see blog entry), which began life as a slow blues song composed in Reason, which was finally combined with some, gritty as shit, harmonica, and some pretty generic blues lyrics (which Im thinking will change down the line [they have, and now the song is called "Jokes on Me"]) just to prove the point. Rather than waiting to perfect the composition & recording I've chosen to post it while its still steaming, and I plan to continue to put up new tunes as soon as they are viable. As they're refined, I'll replace the tracks. So, if anyones paying attention, you can ride along on my creative journey which will hopefully culminate in my first truly "Atomic" album. (note: in the year or so since I wrote this introduction, what's come out has been a combination of rootsy originals, and re-imagined roots blues and oddly enough spiritual Bluegrass cover songs)Of course a wise man once said that if you want to make the gods laugh . make a plan.Hope you listen and enjoy it.-CW-