Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Current events produces meaning, history creates art, and in a city where the two are often seen hand in hand, art and meaning are to be heralded as they allow the artist to truly appreciate the fluid nature of capture a scene and unveiling it for an audience who will gaze upon its beauty with pride and awe, and then go searching for the meaning underneath, and whilst such focuses of attention are always subject to personal interpretation, there can be no doubting the swagger, the sense of impenetrability that comes with certain times that evoke a sense of charm, of art in motion.
Hot on the heels of the single Black And Blue, David Neville King releases the imposing track Ginger McCain, a buoyant, resounding, and true to its soul, rampaging and thunderous song which captures the essence of a person filled with gravitas, with exuberance, who understands the world around them and who confidently, but with grace and feeling, sits as a counter weight of emotion to the musician’s earlier offering of beautiful sorrow and realisation.
Ginger McCain requires no history lesson on the listener’s part, but the art that surrounds the mythos and insightful word play on hand by David Neville King is a poet’s dream, it has every ingredient within to make the sound one of a champion, of being one that is cheered from the rafters, and as its trainer, as the one who put in the long hours of care and attention to the thoroughbred song, so Mr. King is quite rightly given the adulation of the deserved winning track.
Aintree may be a thousand miles away in thought for much of the year, but this racehorse, this stallion of a track is one that lights up the musical course for the rest of the year and beyond; pounding, deliberate, heavily backed, and a stirring steam of integrity that comes off the saddle at the crescendo of each jump and hurdle.
David Neville King is one of the great heroes of Liverpool music, and Ginger McCain shows exactly the reason why. Outstanding.
David Neville King releases Ginger McCain on April 1st.
Ian D. Hall