1. Serve Somebody: Phil Driscoll

    Posted in: Videos on Sunday, February 10th, 2013

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    Musically it’s a short journey from blues to gospel, or as some might say from Saturday night to Sunday morning.  They’re both, when good, music you feel deep in your soul, which gives voice to the emotions you sometimes can’t find your own words to express.  This connection between the musical genres is fully evident when some of my musician friends in LA recorded a version of Bob Dylan’s, “Serve Somebody,” for me last year.

    They had shown up as a favor to me, to lay down some blues songs I could record on video.  I’ve called it Boyd’s Blue Adventure session, but it was really up to the guys to play whatever they wanted.  One tune, which I posted previously, called, “Case of the Blues” was made up on the spot, but all were done without any written score to keep them on the same page.  Instead they were on the same wave-length musically, and that connection is what made all the songs that day work so well.

    Phil Driscoll couldn’t resist the opportunity of having these great musicians in his studio to take the blues over to the Gospel side with, “Serve Somebody.”  Phil is on keyboards, trumpet and vocals: with Hadley Hockensmith guitar; Bill Maxwell drums, Greg Mathieson organ; Michiko Hill piano; and Pee Wee Hill bass.

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