Murray McLauchlan takes stage at BPAC Nov. 23
When Murray McLauchlan first picked up a guitar, an outdated Kay acoustic with an image of a palm tree on the pickguard, he discovered one thing that felt like an extension of himself.
After upgrading guitars a couple of instances, McLauchlan made a reputation for himself as one among Canada’s premiere songwriters.
“I play a lot of guitar, I play every day because frankly I like the sound of the thing,” McLauchlan stated. “I mean, I can play piano but it feels like a typewriter. A guitar feels organic.”
Now, McLauchlan and his 1934 Gibson L30 archtop – a big improve over the Kay – are on tour throughout Canada in assist of the album Hourglass, making a cease in Burlington on Saturday, Nov. 23.
It didn’t come naturally, as McLaughlan put it, he banged away on the guitar attempting to be taught outdated prepare songs and Woody Guthrie classics.
He hopes present attendees will respect a bit of extra than simply the music.
“Assuming people are willing to come – and I do hope for that – my hope is people are ever so slightly different when they walk out than they were when they walked in,” McLaughlin stated.
He continued that the music is about one thing, that he himself will not be essentially an entertainer or performing artist, however a storyteller, expressing factors of view in a music that some could not agree with, however many do.
The efficiency will characteristic the songs followers have come to anticipate, reminiscent of Farmer’s Music and Down by the Henry Moore – however is in assist of the album Hourglass, launched in 2021 and recorded, as McLaughlan put it, throughout the plague.
“All the people I play with live pretty close to the studio,” McLaughlan stated. “We could all get there and take the right precautions, everyone wore their masks when not singing.”
By way of a recording course of, the group saved it easy.
“Put some people in a room that can play, and record it,” McLaughlan stated. “The whole record is live off the floor.”
Murray McLaughlan takes stage on the Burlington Performing Arts Centre on Saturday, Nov. 23. Tickets begin at $79.10.
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