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Adam Walton
When I Hear Dylan c/w Forever Again (single)
For fans of: Teenage Fanclub, Bob Dylan, Stella Donnelly, Billy Bragg, The Go-Betweens, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon.
Here is my new single, 'When I Hear Dylan'. It's taken from my debut solo album - ‘Love, Death & In Between’, full details below - and it's a joyful remembrance of my dad.
When I was growing up Bob Dylan was inescapable. Melancholic Sunday evenings would be amplified by Dylan's voice curdling the steam rising off the roast; there was a cassette copy of ‘Street Legal’ permanently stuck in the car stereo; and my dad had a great and inexplicable affection for Bob's born again Christian period... I was rarely treated to ‘Highway 61 Revisited’, but I know every note and nuance of ‘Slow Train Coming’ better than I know myself.
We protested loudly every time he put Dylan on, but the songs and that voice mutated our genes, wove themselves into our DNA, somehow, and now I'm almost as evangelical as my dad was. And there's a real joy in remembering him so clearly through Bob Dylan's songs.
The other side ('Forever Again') is similarly nostalgic. It is about a spring I spent in the South of France with my band, imagining we were doing our Hamburg, when - in reality - all we were really doing was avoiding the dole back in Mold and the pressing need to get proper jobs.
They were the most carefree days of my life. I daren't go back to St Tropez in case it's changed. It's a heartbreakingly beautiful and romantic place out of season (we lived in a bedsit off leftovers from a local cafe, and only had the suits we played in... the glamour was somewhat lost on us.)
I wanted to write something as light and uplifting as Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's version of 'Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water', but we all know what want did.
'Forever Again' is exclusive to the severely limited 7" pressing of the single. It's not on the (just released) solo album, ‘Love, Death & In Between’.
Here's the full press release for the album.
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I’m Adam Walton. I grew up in Mold in north Wales. I’ve been obsessed with making music since I heard a schoolmate, Graham Devine, playing classical guitar at a Welsh language training camp when I was 11. Graham is now a world-renowned classical guitarist, whereas I talk too much while celebrating other people’s music on the radio (BBC Introducing in Wales).
The band I sing and play guitar for - The Immediate - reformed after a long hiatus in 2016, and have since released two albums that earned airplay on various stations worldwide, including 6Music and BBC Radio Wales. We've played some great gigs with the likes of The Darling Buds, The Blockheads, Kidsmoke and Campfire Social, but not nearly enough gigs because Big Important Life (my bandmates' families and their proper, demanding jobs) make rehearsal and travel difficult.
The problem with twiddling my thumbs and fingers at home, however, is that songs fall out. Lots of songs. And some of those songs have grown into this album.
‘Love, Death & In Between’, then, has been shaped by my wanting to do something regardless of who else is available: a have-guitar, will-travel philosophy, with a set of songs written specifically to be played solo.
I re-read Viv Albertine’s brilliant memoir, ‘Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys’, over the summer. It’s such a motivational story, uncompromisingly and brilliantly told. Viv’s commitment to re-learning the guitar and writing songs, and her determination in taking those songs out to open mic nights, away from home and out of her comfort zone, is particularly inspirational.
That's my plan, then, for this set of songs: a cheery selection inspired by grief and despair, and finding joy in the rain, or in music, or in the arms of the person you love while the world goes to pot outside.
The approach for ‘Love, Death & In Between’ was really simple: one man, one guitar, one voice, no overdubs, and recorded at home, in mono. Not as Luddite affectations, but because I wanted to keep it as simple and direct as possible.
I hope you like these songs. I’m too old and grumpy to pretend otherwise, and I want to take them out of the house as often as possible, away from clearing up continuously after my kamikaze kittens.
Thank you for your time.
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Adam Walton
When I Hear Dylan c/w Forever Again (single)
Release Date: Friday, 10th. January 2020
Label: Whipcord Records
Format: 7” single
For fans of: Teenage Fanclub, Bob Dylan, Stella Donnelly, Billy Bragg, The Go-Betweens, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon.
Here is my new single, 'When I Hear Dylan'. It's taken from my debut solo album - ‘Love, Death & In Between’, full details below - and it's a joyful remembrance of my dad.
When I was growing up Bob Dylan was inescapable. Melancholic Sunday evenings would be amplified by Dylan's voice curdling the steam rising off the roast; there was a cassette copy of ‘Street Legal’ permanently stuck in the car stereo; and my dad had a great and inexplicable affection for Bob's born again Christian period... I was rarely treated to ‘Highway 61 Revisited’, but I know every note and nuance of ‘Slow Train Coming’ better than I know myself.
We protested loudly every time he put Dylan on, but the songs and that voice mutated our genes, wove themselves into our DNA, somehow, and now I'm almost as evangelical as my dad was. And there's a real joy in remembering him so clearly through Bob Dylan's songs.
The other side ('Forever Again') is similarly nostalgic. It is about a spring I spent in the South of France with my band, imagining we were doing our Hamburg, when - in reality - all we were really doing was avoiding the dole back in Mold and the pressing need to get proper jobs.
They were the most carefree days of my life. I daren't go back to St Tropez in case it's changed. It's a heartbreakingly beautiful and romantic place out of season (we lived in a bedsit off leftovers from a local cafe, and only had the suits we played in... the glamour was somewhat lost on us.)
I wanted to write something as light and uplifting as Gorky's Zygotic Mynci's version of 'Fresher Than The Sweetness In Water', but we all know what want did.
'Forever Again' is exclusive to the severely limited 7" pressing of the single. It's not on the (just released) solo album, ‘Love, Death & In Between’.
Here's the full press release for the album.
------
I’m Adam Walton. I grew up in Mold in north Wales. I’ve been obsessed with making music since I heard a schoolmate, Graham Devine, playing classical guitar at a Welsh language training camp when I was 11. Graham is now a world-renowned classical guitarist, whereas I talk too much while celebrating other people’s music on the radio (BBC Introducing in Wales).
The band I sing and play guitar for - The Immediate - reformed after a long hiatus in 2016, and have since released two albums that earned airplay on various stations worldwide, including 6Music and BBC Radio Wales. We've played some great gigs with the likes of The Darling Buds, The Blockheads, Kidsmoke and Campfire Social, but not nearly enough gigs because Big Important Life (my bandmates' families and their proper, demanding jobs) make rehearsal and travel difficult.
The problem with twiddling my thumbs and fingers at home, however, is that songs fall out. Lots of songs. And some of those songs have grown into this album.
‘Love, Death & In Between’, then, has been shaped by my wanting to do something regardless of who else is available: a have-guitar, will-travel philosophy, with a set of songs written specifically to be played solo.
I re-read Viv Albertine’s brilliant memoir, ‘Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys’, over the summer. It’s such a motivational story, uncompromisingly and brilliantly told. Viv’s commitment to re-learning the guitar and writing songs, and her determination in taking those songs out to open mic nights, away from home and out of her comfort zone, is particularly inspirational.
That's my plan, then, for this set of songs: a cheery selection inspired by grief and despair, and finding joy in the rain, or in music, or in the arms of the person you love while the world goes to pot outside.
The approach for ‘Love, Death & In Between’ was really simple: one man, one guitar, one voice, no overdubs, and recorded at home, in mono. Not as Luddite affectations, but because I wanted to keep it as simple and direct as possible.
I hope you like these songs. I’m too old and grumpy to pretend otherwise, and I want to take them out of the house as often as possible, away from clearing up continuously after my kamikaze kittens.
Thank you for your time.
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released January 10, 2020
All songs written, played and recorded by Adam Walton.
My name is Adam Walton. I’m from Mold in north Wales.
I love slightly off kilter chord
sequences & melodies that weave and glow. If the melodies weave and glow for you, I’ll be a happy-ish man.
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