Out from the Darkness by Tyler Blanski
June 12, 2008
Unless you are addicted to watching MTV and perpetually throbbing in lubricious delight from the latest club pop song, you should check out Tyler Blanski’s new album “Out from the Darkness” on Ezekiel Records. For many of my mates and our gals, these songs were nestled in the food group pyramid with black coffee & hand rolled cigarettes – the songs by which we remember the pleasures of our Hillsdale days – the music in our souls.
Ty writes good songs like paleontologists dig around in the dirt. The labor is love, people who don’t care for dinos can still recognize the beauty, and at the end of the day, they’ve got a pile of bones.
He is steeped in the rhythms of Mason Jennings, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bob Dylan, Charlie Parr, Trampled By Turtles, Amy Grant, Storyhill, Iron & Wine, and the like. But don’t mistake him as anything but his own man. The album includes 20th Century minor poet Robert Hayden’s poem “Sundays” made song, a American spiritual slave lament, a song Ty claims God made called “The Sparrow” and his most requested, “Black Bottom.”
If yer on Facebook, you can become a fan and listen to a sampling. The album is $13 and can be bought on the website at www.tylerblanski.com
This album is one to listen to straight through, but it’s unlikely you’ll make it six songs in without becoming obsessively compelled to put a track on repeat.
“oh ragged love, oh patchwork love, i will wear you out, i will wear you through the streets and ride you through the clouds….”
