It’s incredible how the simplest and most everyday images can be the catalyst for great music, how one small musical pebble can start a creative avalanche, how the most innocent of ideas can expand into a wonderfully ornate and infectious song.
In John Deering’s case, it was a small scene from a film that he caught over his wife’s shoulder, with no context, no understanding of the film, just a few frames of a woman slow dancing with a partner. In his mind, it was a career woman who had sacrificed romance for her job and was here just grabbing a few fleeting minutes of intimacy, a brief encounter, and “Slow Dance” was born.
This upbeat and intriguing song runs along that accessible rock/smart pop line, that perfect middle ground between the two broadest genres, a place that is anything but mainstream…but is precisely what the mainstream should sound like rather than the lowest common denominator, compromised and conformist music that it currently is. Imagine if the charts were full of such instant yet intricate music, we can but hope.
Again, he brings in some notable players to help him out – drummer Peter Anderson, of Run Westy Run fame and Ryan Smith from, not just Soul Asylum but a man who seems to be in some way associated with everything interesting coming out of Minneapolis these days (not least Mary Strand) adds an urgent, driving bass line.
From simple sonic acorns mighty musical oaks grow!
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