Toronto musician Sean Pinchin has transformed himself from folk singer to full on bluesman with his new CD “Rustbucket.”
He plays the Owl Acoustic Lounge, Oct. 12.
His new CD will be released on Nov. 12, but he is getting his tour legs a little early
“I’ve actually spent the last four day
s driving,” he said from his first tour stop in Regina. He is excited about the CD and his new sound.
“It’s definitely a different sound. I’ve thrown away the acoustic guitar and picked up a band for the CD. But I’m still in between, because I’m playing an old National steel guitar,” he said.
“The new CD is about the challenges and loneliness of being a touring musician, but it’s really a love letter to my old guitar,” he described.
He noted he tried to latch on to the very popular singer songwriter/ folk singing, story telling scene, but the blues was a better fit.
“It wasn’t me. I feel like I’ve always played the blues. I‘ve got a lot of blues festivals under my belt.”
Singer/ songwriter Rob Szabo produced the album who helped push Pinchin to be a better songwriter.They get talking about music and about doing an album together.
“We added a band. We got Steve Strongman, who just won a Juno, to play guitar. There is a a lot of exciting stuff on it,” he said.
He enjoyed working with Szabo, who has stepped back from touring and got more into producing a variety of projects ranging from folk singer/ songwriters like Peter Katz to a metal project with Danko Jones’ drummer.
“He had me doing this exercise where I’d write a song a day. I’d go in with five songs I thought were really good and left with two-and-a-half songs, made out of parts of all of them,” he continued.
“The most important advice he gave me was not to stop,” he continued.
“ Rob is great. He couldn’t have been more supportive,” he said.
He is excited to return to Lethbridge.
“By the time I get there I’ll have done 14 shows in a row, so it will be powerful. I have two shows that day, one at an art gallery in Medicine Hat, so it will be a busy day,” he said.
There is no cover for the show, which begins at approximately 9:30 p.m.
