Sansietch Releases Latest CD, Clovis Connection, on Blues Farm Records

June 23, 2010 - PRLog -- ansietch's eleventh album, Clovis Connection, will be available from Blues Farm Records, http://www.bluesfarm.com, on June 30, 2010.

The CD has 10 songs, and each one grooves in it's own way, but retains the southwestern feel the label has become known for. On Clovis Connection, Sansietch is once again the songwriter, performer, and producer. While this album may in truth be a one man show, it can be highly deceptive in its simplicity. Often there are strange beats and unexpected directions within the performances. It feels like there are several people playing and in a sense takes on a live vibe.

Sansietch and his “little label that could” Blues Farm Records, have grown from their early days just a few years ago. The label does seem to have pared down its roster a bit, but there are no less albums coming out. And the acts left all retain the real heart of the label, which is the southwest.

Sansietch has already finished a Christmas album called, Christmas In New Mexico, to be released in October 2010 on Blues Farm Records. And he's currently working with Plateau Joe at La Fonda Studios in Clovis, New Mexico on another project to be finished early fall. And the label will be issuing at least three other CDs this year.

Clovis Connection has no title track, and the first song, Devil Child, while by no means romantic, certainly sets the tone for strong, blues-ridden heartache. No time is wasted showing off rock-n-roll roots either. Slide guitar is around on the album, but the mainstay is Sansietch's gritty, blues tone.  “I've been tied down” he sings. “Through the storm, and now there's calm.” A thought that comes to mind when listening to the ease with which lightning licks flow off of his guitar.

Sansietch is at his best on Ghost Town, a groovy, haunting ride across the wide open spaces of the American southwest. Or one's heart when love goes wrong. The strange reso-style lead helps imagine the need to get away, to get in the car and drive route 66 until you've had enough.

On Turn It Up And Lay It Down the master makes us all wish we could just show up at Blues Farm with our guitar and amp, and turn it up and lay down tracks in the place Where Giants Roared. Rockin' Blues with melodic leads and breakdowns that let the listener jam along. Senorita Save Me thumps with a raw bass that seems to get lost in major label productions. The best thing about Clovis Connection is its connection to how real live music sounds. And though Sansietch sings “I got my mind straight, I ain't lookin' for past ghosts”, something tells me some of Clovis' legends of yore might be watching over him.

The slow blues burner called Sansietch says it all. “Hard times we call the blues.” Again, the thumping bass line. Sansietch squeezes out notes that sometimes didn't seem possible. Great imagery in the lyric when he says, “We all know about a boy named Sue, and the reasons fathers do what they do. When lovin' seems just out of reach, that's because I am Sansietch.”

The real maverick doesn't mince words. Though no one could say if Maggie, of the final cut Oh, Maggie, ever existed. When pressed Sansietch will always say that regardless of what little truth a song may have in it, it is always doctored to become its own thing. Huh? Artists!

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