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