Parker Millsap - Be Here Instead (New CD)

The fifth album from Oklahoma-bred singer/songwriter Parker Millsap, Be Here Instead emerged from a wild alchemy of instinct, ingenuity, and joyfully determined rule-breaking. In a departure from the guitar-and-notebook-based approach to songwriting that shaped his earlier work, the Nashville-based artist followed his curiosity to countless other modes of expression, experimenting with everything from piano to effects pedals to old-school drum machines (a fascination partly inspired by the early-'70s innovations of Sly Stone and J.J. Cale). As those explorations deepened and broadened his musical vision, Millsap soon arrived at a body of work touched with both unbridled imagination and lucid insight into the search for presence in a chaotic world.

Tracklist

A1     Rolling     
A2     The Real Thing     
A3     Vulnerable     
A4     It Was You     
A5     In Between     
A6     Dammit     
B1     Empty     
B2     Now, Here     
B3     In Your Eyes     
B4     Passing Through     
B5     Always     
B6     Being Alive