BASSIST GERALD VEASLEY LAYS DOWN THE SEDUCTIVE FABRIC OF VELVET
"What's old is new again." It's an expression we've all heard. In simple terms, it means the good stuff is timeless, and it will always survive and eventually resurface, no matter how many years go by or how much clutter might get in the way.Bassist Gerald Veasley knows. He grew up with the good stuff - the seminal urban grooves of the '70s that served as the backdrop to his creative awakening. "That was a time when I was kind of coming into my own as a musician, starting to really take music seriously, and there were all these great sounds around," he recalls. "Music right about that time was starting to get very, very funky, and people were taking a lot of chances. There weren't a lot of constraints in radio." Heads Up International announces the April 22, 2003, worldwide release of Velvet (HUCD 3072), Veasley's richly textured new recording that evokes the sound and spirit of those formative years when innovators like Sly & the Family Stone, Earth Wind and Fire and George Clinton's Parliament-Funkadelic turned the traditions of R&B and soul on their head and redefined the urban sound. |
