This album features Spencer's violin and guitar, Eugene Uman on piano
and organ, Dan Haley on mandolin, a guest appearance of Chas Eller on
the Hammond B-3 organ, and Scott Paulson on bass and percussion. It has
a pop-folk-, bluegrassy feel; powerful, passionate, and serene. With an
un-dying positive energy and posessing a sometimes 'un-layed back'
approach it may possibly be one of Spencer's most balanced CD's in
terms of different tempo's. It rides the line between the bluegrass
flavors of Cheyenne Breakdown and the pop-rock chords of Lookin'
Forward. Two titles, Gettin' Quiet and Gettin' Lost
also reflect this approach with the former being a reflective, double
tracked guitar pallete of wise resignation while the latter a bass
driven, slide mandolin, bent fiddled melting pot of pure jammin'
folk-rock. The album ends with Cant't Stop the Rain from Falling; a classic Lewis ballad of piano, organ, strummed guitar with the piercing, emphatic voice of the violin.
Message from Spencer: The Healing Distance title was
created while talking to a friend with the folowing explanation: It is
the distance between the moment something happens, trauma, changes, etc
and the time in which one can actually feel some form of healing taking
place. It is not to be presumptuous to think these concoctions of
musical thoughts and emotions will get one there; But I can attest to
the fact that it got me there, and that's all I can know.
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