Gerry Wall
Returning Fire
© 2004 Catfish Rapids Music (625989408724)
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A blend of folk, country, jazz and roots with an emphasis on words that stay with you.
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- 1 Your Fabulous Life
- 2 Last Chance
- 3 She Deserves
- 4 No Pearl
- 5 Don't Tell My Mother
- 6 Come Along
- 7 Ochre
- 8 Fire in St. Peters
- 9 Lately (We Seem to Disagree)
- 10 Hesitate
- 11 Praying Now
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Independent singer/songwriter from Ottawa Canada influenced by Paul Simon, James Taylor, Paul Kelly and Donald Fagen.
Gerry is currently recording his third album with Dave Draves as co-producer and engineer.
This music is about returning fire.
‘Returning’ means bringing, sending, sending back, or putting back. ‘Fire’ is the light, flame and heat which combustion manifests. Fire is brilliance, luminosity, ardor, fuel, and inspiration. Fire also relates to severe trials, ordeals, or attack, whether verbal, psychological, or by conventional weaponry.
This music returns fire to times past, and to the Prairies. It returns fire to those coming to prayer, looking for a reason, or dancing under a black sky. It returns fire to those who are lucky, have more than they need, have less than they think or deserve much more. To those hesitating, disagreeing, coming home, or homeless. To those walking in the rain, and to spirits painted for celebration, or war. But most of all, this music returns fire to those who have sent love and energy.
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Wall focuses the listener's attention on the lyrics.
author: Patrick Langston, Ottawa CitizenA reflective, often obscure, album, Returning Fire is the second release by Ottawa's Gerry Wall. In it, Wall ponders issues great and small, from the self-congratulatory egos of the wealthy and the self-righteous jealousy of the rest of us to the sanctity of motherhood, the precariousness of love and, in one particularly elliptical song, the election of a new pope. Wall has a light, pleasing voice that adapts readily to the pop- and country-tinged melodies, moves easily from warm engagement to a knowing distance, and focuses the listener's attention on the lyrics (all the songs were written by Wall and his brother-in-law, Graham Knight).