Ricky Ross & Lorraine McIntosh talk religion, politics, love and death to Jane Graham as the couple draw on Johnny Cash and Hank Williams for inspiration on the first album as a duo.
I got their record yesterday in the mail, and it’s gorgeous. Although their duets are a bit JohnnyCash&JuneCarter-ish country (fine, but not usually my cup of tea), the bluesy, sparse arrangements captured me and the lyrics are so truthful and intimate, basically beautiful love songs to one another. After more than two decades of marriage AND being in a band together, that’s very moving to me.
“You’re tired
And you say you’re angry
You’re thankful for
This blessed rain
And you think you’d know
But your old friends
Have to tell you againYour books
”
Taught you
All you know
Your tastes and patterns
And your TV shows
But you can never follow
Where they won’t let you go
— Deacon Blue (“Circus Lights”)
Deacon Blue - “I’ll Never Fall In Love Again/Dignity” medley, live in 2007
“I know so rarely that things come your way
Your ways are tender and your paths are straight
Your mind’s not lived in the way ours are set
Your heart is open to love and regretRings and letters they pass you by
”
You wish them well and seldom cry
For stones and promises and wedding sighs
You’ve known the times that you’ve lived and died
— Deacon Blue (“Love and Regret”)
Deacon Blue - “Loaded” (1987)
Aptly titled, this song is about the days glaswegian Deacon Blue went down to London to sign their first contract and the music execs were all fancy restaurants, expensive clothes and “there were gold AmEx cards flying all over the place”.
Some of their bewilderment could be traced in the music vid, with gap-toothed cutie Ricky Ross, the angelic Lorraine MacIntosh and the boys wandering around London, wide-eyeing everything.
And, while I clearly wasn’t looking, Ricky Ross and Lorraine Mcintosh (former Deacon Blue and hubby&wife in real life) formed a duo! And they have a record out!
I’m still bewildered at the very notion and so happy they finally did it. The record should be in the style of Ricky’s solo records: Americana, Roots and a bit of Scottish folk thrown in. I will know for sure when the record I ordered arrives!
Here are some infos on the record and preview of some songs.
Prepare to my pic spam, tune spam, lyrics posting, from then and now. Deacon Blue simply made the record of my life, and I’m still grateful for that.
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