Christopher Lockett’s new album
Road Songs For The Restless
is out now on iTunes and CDBaby
What the reviews said about his first album,
Christopher Lockett:
“On his album Roadhouses and Dance Halls, Lonnie Mack sang that he was “too Rock for Country and too Country for Rock and Roll” and a similar lyric may fit Christopher Lockett’s debut album. Only in his case the question is “is he too folk for Alt-Country or too Alt-Country for folk?” Either way it makes him fully AMERICANA.
His self-titled debut CD has been residing on my mp3 player for the last couple of months and every time I listen to it, I hear something new and like the album just a little more.
“There’s somebody who I think the gravel voiced Locket sounds like but I’ve yet to place the voice! Anyway the lyrics of his songs are great and there’s great lines in just about every song.”
Ed Karn – NoDepression.com
” His vocals could front an alt-country roots band, with that little bit of twang, and that country stride that the best of the country-blues singers acheive…..yet….. his songs, instrumentation and arrangements are acoustic, organic, even sentimental and folky. Throw in some oddball acoustic instruments and you have the ingredients for some pretty eclectic songs, even if they are simple country or folk styled ballads. There’s a nuance in the writing that sometimes defies his voice. His lyrics are simple, yet emotional and intelligent. Hold On To The Night is a lovely, if bittersweet ballad, again, laced with simple with honest emotion. The great, if a bit restrained, harmony vocal is from Trevi Fligg. In tandem, their vocals seem to sink into your pores.”
Call It Folk
“Deceptively simple songs that take a snapshot of a complex world and refine it down to a parable like those tunes in the Carter Family archive.”
“A serious rambler with an intelligent heart and a point of view in every song. “
“The better poets seem to step back a little and take things in from a big point of view. Chris has seen the world and shook its hand in Mali or Cote D’Ivoire West Africa, Haiti, Guatemala, Mexico. He learned his folk and country in Virginia and somehow manages to focus that down home flavor on a borderless brotherhood of humanity.”
“I could listen to a whole album of Christopher Lockett playing Mbira.”
“These are good songs that can walk by themselves. That’s all they need to be. That’s plenty.”
Billy Sheppard – BillysBunker.com
“These songs sound very American. Sublime jaw harp and harmonica playing.”
“African and Eastern influences, but the storytelling Americana songs come out on top here. Great and swinging..”
“Lockett succeeds here in getting our attention and raising our curiosity about what comes next.”
Rootstime Belgium
