An itinerant soul with a canyon-deep alt-country croon, W.C. Beck has established himself as a resourceful and empathetic session musician and multi-instrumentalist by way of his affiliations with Blue Big, Bobby Naked Jr., Horsefeathers, Vikesh Kapoor, Swimming Bell and different acts. A busy man, Beck took his candy time assembling the ten tracks that ultimately made the lower for his newest self-released LP, A Largely Fairly Life. Nicely greater than a decade, the truth is.
Throughout that interval, Beck cycled by way of an array of bands and studio gigs, weathered a worldwide pandemic, recorded in numerous studios and did some transferring round. After prolonged stays in Portland, Ore., and Paris, he’s presently primarily based in Brooklyn, which has confirmed to be fertile floor for the Kansas native. His earlier solo effort, the weathered indie-folk travelogue First Flight, was a well-received 2019 collaboration with a number of NYC musicians and producers, together with Myles Turney, Joel Arnow, Craig Akin and Jason Myles Goss.
Many of the songs on A Largely Quiet Life had been written in Portland between 2010 and 2012, when Beck was on the highway with completely different bands. “This 12 months” is an exception.
“I wrote it over the vacations just a few years in the past as I used to be reflecting on the 12 months that was practically carried out and looking out forward on the new 12 months earlier than me,” says Beck. “It’s all the time an odd train within the lifeless of winter, questioning what new issues—good, unhealthy and in-between—will unfold over the subsequent calendar 12 months. This tune is a hopeful take a look at what’s to come back, realizing that the one fixed in life is change.”
We’re proud to premiere W.C. Beck’s “This 12 months.” Search for A Largely Quiet Life Aug. 15.
—Hobart Rowland
