Women are the creator of trouble and problems. Don’t come running to me baby with all your troubles.” He is exhausted, tired of hearing this girl’s troubles as he sings, “What’s wrong with you? Lord knows. In “You’ve Got Your Troubles,” Dekker isn’t feeling much sympathy for the subject of this song, a recipient of troubles, identified only as “girl.” He sings, “You’ve got your troubles baby, I’ve got mine.” It’s not a shared misery, a community of support. Women were either the recipient of troubles, or the creator of troubles. They were bloodsuckers, cannibals, seducers who lured men to evil. Sure there were sweet love songs in the tradition of American rhythm and blues, but then Dekker had a definite opinion when it came to relationships. Even though there were troubles and misery, he encouraged us to live in unity and since we were one creation we should live as one nation.īut then there were Desmond Dekker’s women, or more accurately, the girls and the themes of love and unity didn’t seem to apply to the male and female sexes. He told of how money is so hard to get and so easy to go. His songs also told of the problems of everyday people, those who slaved for bread so every mouth could be fed, how it is very hard sometimes for a man to find his own meal and sometimes he has to go out and steal.
? Where: Jake's Sports Café and Backroom, 5025 50th St.Desmond Dekker was perhaps most well-known for his rude boy songs, the lyrics that celebrated rude boys, but also told them to keep a cool head. "We've been playing the same songs for the last three years, and it's great to have another record."
"We will be playing songs from the new record," said Allison. "After doing it for a while, you wish you could just put them down and play some other songs, but sometimes that is difficult when you are headlining," he said.Īllison said he's happy to be coming to Lubbock and playing the new material.
He said after touring on the same material for the past three years, he's ready to let some of the older tunes rest. Very rarely do we have an entire song put together before we start working on it."Īllison said he is glad to be back on the road, this time playing some new songs from the album. "As we work on the song, it begins to take shape, and the next thing you know you have something to show people. "It is always different when we write a song, but most of the time it starts with a tiny idea, with the riffs and the lyrics and the melody," said Allison. When coming together to write for the record, Allison and Walser started with a small idea, and then fleshed it out with some guitar riffs and lyrics. "We had to swallow some things, and we realized the record was better with us working together than working apart," he added. "It is hard for friends to get together to do something creatively because you sometimes have a difference of opinion, but you are friends above anything else, and you can't let work get in the way. "We wrote some good music in the end, when we were able to put all of these things behind us," Allison said. They also realized they needed to write together to complete the project.
They realized, however, they were friends, and that comes before the work. Not only that, but Allison and Walser were having some trouble writing together. We had recorded the lion's share of the record, and we realized we had a little more recording budget and time, so we put together two more songs in that time, and "S.O.A.R" was one of those."Īfter recording the title track, Devour the Day realized it really encapsulated where the band members were in their lives and summarized the direction of the record.ĭuring the writing stage of the record, Allison said, the guys in the band were somewhat uninspired and distracted by the personal issues surrounding them. "It was just a really rough time for Joey and I in our personal lives. "The record was a fairly difficult task for us, because we had outside influences that was keeping us distracted," said Allison. He said recording for the album was in its final stages when band members realized they had a little more time and a little more money. Tuesday at Jake's Sports Café and Backroom, 5025 50th St.Īllison said "S.O.A.R" stands for Suffer, Overcome and Recover.
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Working through the rough patch wasn't easy, but the product of that strife is called "S.O.A.R." and will be released April 1 via Razor and Tie Records.ĭevour the Day is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m. While gearing up to write and record for its upcoming release, hard rock band Devour the Day was hitting some major obstacles on the home front.īand member Blake Allison had just lost his father, and fellow bandmate Joey "Chicago" Walser was having some issues with his ex-wife.
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