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FORT WORTH, Texas - As he puts the finishing touches on his next CD album, Privateer, Earl Musick reflects on a career that has sustained him for more than 20 years as an innovative composer, guitarist and singer within Texas' competitive and challenging community of roots-music artists.
Mostly, Musick is reflecting on the changes that have brought him to this solo-artist phase, after over a generation's span of near-anonymity as an ensemble player.
"I'd always thought that using the name Musick might seem a little pretentious," Music says, "and so I kind of low-profiled myself for a long time as a bandleader operating under the name of the band."
But no longer. As the 1990s gave way to a new century, Musick effectively set aside the band-name - The Unsung Heroes - that had long served as his performing identity and stepped out front as Earl Musick. His first solo album, the Reload Record Co. release of Done Deal, has fared sufficiently well to have gone into a second pressing and to have spawned a sequel. At the close of 2003, Musick is preparing Privateer for a first-quarter 2004 release.
"It's all over the place, in terms of styles," Musick says of the new project, "but it all boils down to a selection of original songs that must work as purely acoustic pieces - just guitar and voice - before we'll start adding a rhythm section and other layers of instrumentation. This hand-made Texas music that we specialize in covers a lot of ground: Some of it has a country flavor, some might be called folk, or rock, or blues - even jazz - but it all comes down to songs that tell a story in direct, simple terms."
In addition to being a prolific songwriter and a versatile entertainer, Musick is also an accomplished left-handed guitar player, utilizing an array of custom-designed, "backward" guitars - right hand on the fretboard, left hand on the string-plucking end - instead of the upside-down configuration that many other left-handed guitarists employ.
The music-review Webzine Rockzillaworld has appraised Musick's Done Deal CD in these term
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