Shot of Gold
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Jackie Bristow
Shot of Gold
[ Montana / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 5 February 2016
At once heartfelt and sophisticated, Jackie Bristow's songs combine subtle but beautiful melodies and hooks that hypnotise the listener, demanding complete surrender then sticking around like the backbone of a real friend.
Jackie says, "Shot of Gold, is an album of real stories and experiences in my life - songs of struggle, joy, love, loss and healing. I was living in Austin Texas when I wrote this album and was inspired by southern blues and country roots music and the people I met in great live music scene. I stepped away from trying to write commercial mainstream music and wrote stories from my heart and my life. This is why we recorded this album with raw and sparse production built around my live solo performances."
The lead single 'I Don't Want To Come Down' showcases the beautifully restrained, considered but confident nature of the album, produced by renowned Australian musician and longtime collaborator, Mark Punch (Kasey Chambers, Jimmy Barnes). Sparse acoustic picking and washes of slide guitar leave space for Bristow's assured soulful voice as she tells the intimate story of euphoric love.
"Former South Islander Bristow has lived in Austin for -- as far as I can tell -- almost a decade now and that seems her natural home.
These 10 songs on her fourth album ring with the sound of a Texas wind across a flatland desert courtesy of multi-instrumentalist/producer Mark Punch's guitars and spacious production which compliment the mood of these spare and lonely meditations.
Love is like heroin (I Don't Want to Come Down) and almost a beautiful curse (Cry) there are farewells to be made (the banjo-plucked Rollin' Stone, the mandolin-kissed Kiss You Goodbye) and faith to be acknowledged (the title track).
Bristow's previous album Freedom staked out this lyrical territory in some ways, but here the sound -- Mark Collins on banjo, percussion player Mauricio Lewak and acoustic bassist Jonathan Zwartz alongside Bristow and Punch, who has produced Kasey Chambers -- sounds perfectly attuned to her concerns.
And in the moving Fallen Youth she gives Emmylou Harris a real run for her money.
This is a quiet, focused and finely crafted album which ends with a soulful Healing where she alludes to but doesn't over-state a gospel spirit.
Quite something." - Graham Reid elsewhere.co.nz
Tracks:
Whistle Blowin'
Cry
I Don't Want to Come Down
Rollin' Stone
Kiss You Goodbye
Broken Record
Shot of Gold
Gotta Let Love Find You
Fallen Youth
Healing
