Guy Blakeslee Likes Stevie's Voice

[michelej1]

This is an excerpt from an L. A. Weekly article on Guy Blakeslee:

http://www.laweekly.com/music/music/...nfinity/17784/

“What strikes me about the old blues artists that I started out trying to learn from is that even in a totally quiet setting, with just a person and a guitar and their voice, they’re somehow summoning an emotional transcendence. And that speaks to you even if you don’t know why.”

And, he says, that kind of going beyond can emit from surprising sources. “I’ve been really into Fleetwood Mac a lot recently, because of the way Stevie Nicks’ voice sounds to me — it channels this other level of emotional vibration that sounds supernatural. It’s not like screaming or smashing into things; it’s just like she opens her mouth and it just takes you to another world. She’s somehow tuning into something and bringing that to the audience.”