BEN HARPER ‘Bloodline Maintenance’

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Description

Timely, topical lyrics are set against a rich backdrop of soul and gospel in the veteran singer-songwriter and guitarist’s potent and personal 17th studio album.
Ben Harper’s eagerly anticipated, fiercely personal and deeply soulful latest was largely inspired by the loss of a long-time friend and the lingering influence of a mercurial and charismatic father.
“This whole album is really soul music reinterpreted with a lap steel,” Harper says. “I believe strongly that music has this great capacity for communication like a sonic newsprint. And I’ve always believed that the music I write has a place in the choir “ It was like I was moving forward and venturing into places I had never been before. And I knew the sounds I was hearing in my head were so unorthodox that I had to do most of it myself.”

Bloodline Maintenance sees Harper performing the majority of the instruments on his own, spanning guitar, bass, drums and an eclectic assortment of percussions including a plastic toy snare.

Applying the inventiveness of hip-hop to longstanding paradigms of soul, blues and jazz, spinning into a reconfiguration of a new black Americana, Bloodline Maintenance continues Harper’s long history as one of his generation’s most potent protest singers.