Or a few, actually.Its the 20th anniversary of his 1 song, Lullaby.
Additionally, hes recently completed two studio versions of his 1998 LP, Souls Core. Titled Souls Core Revival, the two-disc set features an acoustic version and a full-band take on the LP. The set arrives 16 November via his own Carnival Records and may be ordered here. Rather than merely reissue the album, Mullins opted to recreate it, providing a fresh take on the songs, allowing the intervening years to inform the new performances for himself and his audience. The initial album served as the Atlanta singer-songwriters major label debut, placed well on the album charts and introduced him to a wider, international audience. On crafting Lullaby Mullins describes: I was listening to a lot of Joni Mitchell and I was trying to figure out her tunings. Somehow I ended up with kind of an open G tuning, but it has two low Gs. I think that where the guitar part came from even though I ended up playing it very different than what she would do. I had just seen Ani (DiFranco) play for the first time, and it blew my mind. She was playing guitar with all five fingers on her right hand. It was like Punk-Flamenco unbelievable; it just blew my mind -- I was either gonna quit right then and there at the end of the night, or I was gonna get better. So, it ended up, in a way, somewhere between Joni Mitchell and Ani DiFranco. Although, I made up a lot of stuff to make it probably a little more dramatic. The acoustic version spotlights Mullins emotive lyrics and vulnerable vocals, further cementing his reputation as a world-class troubadour capable of speaking to the hearts of the lonely and those who will be. The electric take lacks none of the vulnerability or emotions, and yet the recasting is a remarkable feat, its chorus lifting the listener to soaring heights, the dynamics becoming not more pronounced but pronounced with a different accent. For the band-centered set, Mullins worked with multi-instrumentalist Randall Bramblett (Bonnie Raitt, Steve Winwood) as well as singer-songwriter Michelle Malone and drummerproducer Gerry Gator Hansen. Radoslav Lorkovic ( accordion and keys), Davis Causey and Patrick Blanchard (guitars), Tom Ryan (bass and sax), and Wayne Postell (trumpet) also joined in. Soul Core s original engineer Glenn Matullo returned, and engineermixer John Keane (R.E.M., Indigo Girls, Widespread Panic) joined in on recordings that took place at Keanes studio in Athens, Georgia. Voices become indistinguishable from machines on Hidden in This Is the Light That You Miss. Their quotidian concerns sound as true now as they would have back then. But dont worry, its just as blissfully difficult as their debut.
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