Colin Macleo sits down for a One On One Session at City Winery New York on March 20th, 2018. Watch the full session here: https://youtu.be/hG_8988-YaI For more info visit: http://www.colinmacleodmusic.com Audio & Video by: Ehud Lazin
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A farmer from the Isle of Lewis makes a debut album with the intensity of Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness On The Edge Of Town. It may seem surprising, but Colin Macleod’sinfluences are the same: wide open spaces, hard physical work, and a love for his local
community – though in this case, a community that goes back 600 years. Bloodlines is folk music, according to producer Ethan Johns (Ryan Adams, Kings Of Leon), but not as you’ve heard it before. Modern, moody and epic, the album owes more to The National or My Morning Jacket than Hebridean reels. Just don’t expect Colin to go on tour at lambing time. In a former life, he was alt-folk artist The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, cutting his teeth on the
same vibrant Glasgow scene as his friends Frightened Rabbit and Snow Patrol. But his love for the wild land he was raised on, 300 miles north of Glasgow, proved too strong and three
years ago he made the move back to the Eye Peninsula, east of Stornoway, buying a small farm. Funnily enough, there couldn’t have been a better move for his music career.
“Growing up on Lewis, I was so far away from everything I never really thought you could make a career out of being a musician,” he says. “I thought it was one or the other - musician or islander. The older I got, the more I realised the two are inseparable.”
The Macleods go back five generations on Lewis. What with farm work, making lobster pots and taking groups of elderly English gents off on salmon fishing trips in the summer, he had his work cut out - “the aim was total self-sufficiency.” But his songs had always been inspired by the landscape and once he was home again, they came thick and fast. Not far from the salmon fishing site, there’s an abandoned green bus next to the ocean. After the old boys had gone home to bed, MacLeod sat there with his guitar getting the bones of an album together.
