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 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 finally made the minimize for his newest self-released LP, A Principally Fairly Life. Effectively greater than a decade, in reality.
Throughout that interval, Beck cycled by an array of bands and studio gigs, weathered a worldwide pandemic, recorded in varied studios and did some shifting 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 Principally Quiet Life have been written in Portland between 2010 and 2012, when Beck was on the street with completely different bands. “This 12 months” is an exception.
“I wrote it over the vacations a number of years in the past as I used to be reflecting on the yr that was practically executed and looking out forward on the new yr earlier than me,” says Beck. “It’s all the time a wierd train within the lifeless of winter, questioning what new issues—good, dangerous and in-between—will unfold over the following calendar yr. This tune is a hopeful take a look at what’s to come back, figuring out that the one fixed in life is change.”
We’re proud to premiere W.C. Beck’s “This 12 months.” Search for A Principally Quiet Life Aug. 15.
—Hobart Rowland
