As much as I’m trying to focus on new to NMC artists I can’t overlook GLIMTVIS, the Danish duo, which just released its debut album, ‘The Nashville Confessions’. To be honest even if I’d never heard of them I’d be making a beeline for this release on the strength of its title alone.
It’s so damn suggestive. Who are we going to get the lowdown on? Dolly? Garth? Reba? A fallen angel (Taylor)? A nearly girl (Beyoncé)?
But there’s no need for tittle tattle or anything that would make Page 3 of The Sun.
What I like about GLIMTVIS especially is their authenticity. They are so genuine in fact that they travelled all the way out to Tennessee and spent 10 days working on 11 songs with 12 songwriters to produce the album.
Apart from the fact that’s as many songwriters as Taylor has, it’s like a mathematical string of numbers which must mean something in Game Theory.
After the seven-hour ordeal of reviewing the new Nightwish album yesterday I haven’t the energy for another one but I’m more than happy to throw light on the opening and focus track, ‘Is Anybody Missing Me’.
Sometimes, when I’m sat here alone writing this stuff I wonder that myself and I envy those who can get out and about while doing their stuff and that is pretty much what the album is about, balancing the rootlessness and uncertainty of life on the road with the inherent joy found in it.
Those beatniks knew all about it and GLIMTVIS are merely carrying on where Jack Kerouac left off.
‘Is Anybody Missing Me’ was written in collaboration with singer and songwriter Cheley Tackett and confesses the gripping doubt one can feel on the dark highway in the early hours. Having only rarely driven in the dark in the US I can really only imagine it but those freeways do seem to possess a menace that our friendly British motorways don’t.
You often see the words Americana, Scandicana and Nordicana bandied around, including in this journal, without anyone really being cognisant of the difference between them.
I’m not going to use any of those words to describe ‘Is Anybody Missing Me’. It’s pure Nashville, plain and simple, from the writers to the performers – including the session men I’m sure were involved in this – to the producers. You could easily think you had tuned into the Country Music Awards.
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