Aaron Pollock – Call the Coroner Blues: A Sanctuary of Soul-Soaked Sublimity

There are 11 albums and a myriad of prestigious accolades behind Aaron Pollock, with him more than primed to become the blues guitar virtuoso of his generation. His recent seminal single, Call the Coroner Blues, asks you to forget tired expectations of blues and step onto his metaphorical front porch for a moment. The guitar mastery is only a fraction of the alchemy; his seraphically warm sense of soul draws you into a front porch-esque vignette that shrugs off the usual restraint of the genre, turning into an easy-listening earworm that invites you into the reverie of escapism. The lyrics flirt with the quasi-macabre while refusing to chill the bones; instead, Pollock sings as though he is reaching into the sanctuary of sublimity, refracting that bliss into a piece that keeps the blues scales subtle, a nuanced nod to his talents that never need to overreach to make you recognise his intuitive relationship with his fretboard and his way of making each note the conduit of his soul. Based in Australia, Pollock cut his teeth as a street performer before fast-tracking to international stages; by 22, he was already a finalist at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, and now, […] The post Aaron Pollock – Call the Coroner Blues: A Sanctuary of Soul-Soaked Sublimity appeared first on A&R Factory.

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There are 11 albums and a myriad of prestigious accolades behind Aaron Pollock, with him more than primed to become the blues guitar virtuoso of his generation. His recent seminal single, Call the Coroner Blues, asks you to forget tired expectations of blues and step onto his metaphorical front porch for a moment. The guitar mastery is only a fraction of the alchemy; his seraphically warm sense of soul draws you into a front porch-esque vignette that shrugs off the usual restraint of the genre, turning into an easy-listening earworm that invites you into the reverie of escapism. The lyrics flirt with the quasi-macabre while refusing to chill the bones; instead, Pollock sings as though he is reaching into the sanctuary of sublimity, refracting that bliss into a piece that keeps the blues scales subtle, a nuanced nod to his talents that never need to overreach to make you recognise his intuitive relationship with his fretboard and his way of making each note the conduit of his soul. Based in Australia, Pollock cut his teeth as a street performer before fast-tracking to international stages; by 22, he was already a finalist at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis, and now, […]

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