I feel more of a kinship with punk bands and old blues musicians than with most people who fall under the ‘one-man band’ label.”
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I’m making these one-man band records for now, but that doesn’t mean I can’t compose songs for a full band, or add a horn section. “I’m a one-man band,” he admits, “but I’m trying to lose that image. Feeling the pull of something more organic and tangible, he began incorporating things like found objects and analog effects pedals, tightening up his rhythm section chops, adding and removing elements from his live rig as inspiration struck or experiments fizzled. He experimented with electronics and looping for about a year and a half, but his mind kept returning to a street musician he’d seen in Memphis a decade previously, busking on Beale Street with a homemade guitar, a couple of drums, and a bucket on the ground. When his last band broke up in 2008, he found himself in his basement, tearing apart forgotten, half-broken instruments and duct-taping them back together to form the first loadout for his current venture. While Long Time Comin’ may be his finest hour to date, it’s also been…well, a long time coming. His new record, Long Time Comin’, is a celebration of that no-fucks aesthetic, featuring new material alongside fully-realized re-recordings of old songs, all rough edges and loud noises camouflaging a remarkable knack for pop songwriting and mind-bending musicianship. I don’t like records that sound like they’re made to be sold, I like things that are made in spite of the fact it might not sell, and then it sells anyway.”īailey, a gentle giant of a man armed with a formidable array of unconventional instruments, has been blending punk, blues, pop and soul influences for his entire musical career, without any regard to what sells at the time. “I like when I hear a recording and I know that, in the world of recordings, it’s not good,” MG Bailey explains in his disarming Chicago-southside half-drawl, “but the band manages to get the message across. Bailey Releases New Material, Fan Favorites
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