LIBERATION BLUE ACOUSTIC SERIES
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NEW in 2008! Ross Wilson "Like making any new record, at first it was a bit of a struggle. It's a puzzle. You've got to figure out the pieces. Then it starts falling into place."
Actually, Ross Wilson's back catalogue is like one of those 10,000-piece double-sided puzzles with no straight edges. Tributary, his first acoustic album for Australia's premier legacy label, Liberation Blue, could have been put together a hundred different ways. But it was always going to blow your mind.
"The first thing I had to work out was how to make it interesting to me," says the voice of Daddy Cool, Mondo Rock and a maze of other musical ventures. "I didn’t wanna pick up an acoustic guitar and play the songs the same but softer. Like, you can't beat the original Eagle Rock. You've got to take it somewhere completely different."
Liberation Blue Acoustic Series A good song is science, more or less: It becomes a great one somewhere in the grey area between thought and expression.
Now, expression takes command as new dimensions are added to songs that even their creators thought were done and dusted.
Many of them never sounded so good.
And all of them resonate with a clarity that only years of reflection, refinement and commitment can provide.
You’re right. The numbers are getting almost as mind-boggling as the history of Australian music itself.
Each artist approaches their legacy in a unique way but with similar goals: to honour their past with the tools and creative vitality of the present.
The Liberation Blue label was founded in 2004 as a vehicle for some of our greatest singer-songwriters to enter a recording studio with limited time and predominantly acoustic instruments to reinterpret some of their best-known songs and reaffirm their commitments to a creative future.
It has evolved into a thrilling exploration of the craftsmanship that develops within career artists far beyond the transient frontier of the Next Big Thing.
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