LEFT BY THE WAYSIDE, by PETE HOPE

LEFT BY THE WAYSIDE

by PETE HOPE

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1.	HYPOTHETICAL BLUES 02:16	buy track
2.	MUMBO 02:36	buy track
3.	FOX ON A LEASH 01:20	buy track
4.	JOHN CROW 02:17	buy track
5.	HUB TO THE RIM 02:52	buy track
6.	LIVE BY THE RIVER 03:54	buy track
7.	APEMAN JACK 01:38	buy track
8.	700 HOURS 04:12	buy track
9.	ME & MY AUTOMOBILE 02:47	buy track
10.	LET THE GRAVEL FLY 02:17	buy track
11.	ROLL THE DICE 01:36	buy track
12.	ARE YOU THIRSTY 02:38	buy track
13.	REST DAY 02:43	buy track

about

Much of my musical career has been spent finding new ways to define the blues. I’ve done it with electric bands, machines and, of course, acoustically. The recently released ‘Industry Street Blues’ by Hope & Saw, from 1989, was one such project, and it was my old friend Derek Saw who got me in touch with local guitarist and purist blues scholar Keith Hudson to start work on yet another chapter of what we classified as 21st century blues.

I’d commit unaccompanied vocals to cassette and Keith would come back with guitar parts which we gradually honed, through numerous rehearsal sessions, into complete songs. I wasn’t used to such pain-staking attention to detail and became worried that without the spontaneity of how I normally worked the songs might end up getting suffocated.

Months passed and I decided to create a deadline by booking studio time. The songs with Keith were great but I wanted some more variety to balance out what I now saw as an album. I started rehearsing some more songs as duets with some other players; Derek came aboard for some harp & clarinet blowing, Barry Hardin and his 90 year old stand-up bass, Pete Infanti with traps, congas and percussion.

I’d booked the big room at FON & we smashed all previous records by recording 19 songs in a single day! Crazy. Everyone’s commitment to the session was amazing and despite a few problems the bulk of the songs worked out really well but, try as I might, there were no takers.

This was back in 1998 (I think) and since then the tapes have sat in a box, brought out every now and then to briefly trigger enthusiasm only to be filed away again. After all, was anyone really going to release a country blues album from Sheffield?

Finally, this year, 25 years after the recording, I figured there was no point waiting any longer. The ‘Industry Street Blues’ album had been well received and in many ways ‘Left By The Wayside’ is its big brother!

Of the original 19 songs 13 made the final cut; no room for sentimentality, just the essentials. And having done that I was able, at long last, to come up with a definitive running order. Is it perfect? No, of course not!… That was never the goal, as far as I’m concerned that’s not what the blues is about.

Who knows, maybe one day it’ll find it’s way onto vinyl.

Hope springs eternal!

PH (2023)

credits

released July 15, 2023

Vocals - Pete Hope
Bass - Barry Hardin
Guitar - Keith Hudson
Drums, Congas & Percussion - Pete Infanti
Harmonica & Bass Clarinet - Derek Saw

Recorded & Engineered at FON Studios, Sheffield
by Mark Brydon
Assistant Engineer - Phil Jones
ProReduction by P.Hope

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