John Clay - RUSTY GUITAR | Stunted Records

John Clay - RUSTY GUITAR

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dickproctor wonderful fluid guitar work, timeless mid-Atlantic sound and production - just a revelation! Favorite track: The Dualist.

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1.	Mere Mortals 04:30	buy track
2.	JCabMoan 04:36	buy track
3.	We Are The Gods ft. Mike Garson 07:34	buy track
4.	Decades 03:44	buy track
5.	The Dualist 03:29	buy track
6.	Killing Time 04:28	buy track
7.	Were You Ever Really Here 03:49	buy track
8.	Taming Lions 04:07	buy track
9.	Spud Gun 03:54	buy track
10.	We Are The Gods ( reprise ) 07:25	buy track

about

Two years of Covid restrictions and lockdowns resulted in time to finally draw together numerous small ideas that have been kicking around (spanning a huge time period from the mid 80's until the present) and shape them into fully fledged pieces as opposed to little snippets that I kept going back to when I played the guitar. This is the result and it encapsulates the overriding theme of Life.Love.Loss, something that covers in three words the sum of our existence.

The most surreal thing about the whole process was when the tune "We Are The Gods", which I had sent to Bowies Piano Man Mike Garson after I saw him looking for projects that resonated with him, met with a resounding thumbs up and in his own words "this is great". To have such a legend on board still makes me pinch myself, and hearing him close out the lengthy ending piano solo with his signature "Aladdin Sane" close out never ceases to make me smile.

credits

released March 4, 2022

All music written, arranged, recorded, mixed and mastered by John Clay, with the exception of lyrics and melodies to We Are The Gods, Decades and Taming Lions written by Andy Wood.

John Clay - Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards
Tony Ilkiw - Bass Guitars
Sam Pulls - Drums
Andy Wood - Vocals ( We Are The Gods, Decades, Taming Lions )
Monique Mitchell-Wood - Backing Vocals ( Taming Lions )
Mike Garson - Piano ( We Are The Gods )

Original Cover Artwork - Nic Salmon

FabricationsHQ "Best of 2022" roundup - " label owner John Clay’s Indie-rock vibe’d art for art’s sake album Rusty Guitar;"

Velvet Thunder Magaazine - "Classy tracks impeccably played, and some amazing guitar work"

Fireworks Magazine - "Wood sounds so much like Bowie, the structure and tempo of the song could easily make you think it was a Bowie tune"

FabricationsHQ - "We Are the Gods,' featuring vocalist Andy Wood, is a seven–and-half minute slice of avant-garde rock straight out of the Bowie 70s songbook. However its impact is made not from the fact that Wood has a similar vocal tone and phrasing to Bowie of that era, it’s that the great American pianist Mike Garson is heavily featured, including an extended reprise (or reinterpretation), of his classic and famous piano lines from 'Aladdin Sane' (complete with 'Sane sign-off' nod).

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