Jordie Lane
Blood Thinner | 2011-07-14 00:51 | Written By: by AIR
It must have been spooky for Jordie Lane
at the Joshua Tree Inn. Late, by candle-light, a half empty empty
bottle, a four track recorder and a cheap guitar in the corner. He was
writing and recording music while channelling a hero in the very room
that hero died almost 40 years ago. Jordie travelled accross the world
so he could write music in this place, so he could walk into the desert late at night and burn his guitar in homage to Gram Parsons.
In the middle of the Californian desert. Freezing at night and
scorching hot by day, room 8 at the Joshua Tree The Inn is known as the
Gram Parsons Room, where the 'cosmic american music' hero died from an
overdose of morphine and alcohol. The furniture and wall hangings remain
the unchanged to this day, a shrine to the alt-country psychadelic
troubador who changed country music forever. The influence and spirit of
Gram Parsons permeates Jordie's latest album Blood Thinner. A
breathtakingly beautiful take on the best that American folk and country
music have to offer. It is hushed and reverential, melodic and
textured, revealing itself over many listens.
Jordie Lane has always been a man to whom balladry seems to come naturally but this album is just something else. Gorgeous. Co-produced and mixed by multi Grammy Award winner Tom Biller, (Beck, Kanye West, Karen O), and mastered by Grammy award winner Reuben Cohen, Blood Thinner is out through Vitamin Records.
