“Handprints,” the first single and video from Jimmy Deveney’s new album, High Desert Soul, blurs a multitude of lines between genres, styles and moods. Parallel DNA strands from different sides of the musical spectrum – soul and americana – combined in not-so-mad scientist fashion to form an all-new double helix that adds new vocabulary to the roots music lexicon. High Desert Soul is a culmination of where Deveney’s music has been going since relocating back to his hometown of Albuquerque, NM, a little over five years ago.
The music on High Desert Soul is celebratory and reflective, pooling the energy and grooves of vintage soul with songwriting steeped in traditions that go back to the roots of folk and country. The album as a whole takes that template and blazes new trails.
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