JR Sellers Dead Man’s Guitar
JR Sellers & the San Leonardo Swangers Dead Man’s Guitar is available on Apple Music, Spotify
by Walter Price
With a vocal style someplace between Orbison and Terry Lee Hale, UK’s JR Sellers & the San Leonardo Swangers’s “Dead Man’s Guitar” is pure Americana through and through. Raw, poetical, and a tale of woe, this song’s message is a story of living, loving, and drinking it away. While that may sound heavy, this track smooths the pain with a solid toe-tapping twang any country fan would sway to and fro to.
For you visually inclined, there’s a brilliantly done music video to accompany the single. Set in a small red-hued theatre, a lone vocalist conjures up the image of art that can be the loneliest number. Albeit, quite an inspiration for some, I suppose. But ultimately it begs the question, where does artistic pursuit lead you… Kudos to Danilo Stojic and Peter Taylor for capturing the story so vividly.
If you want the truth, you can stream and view the Garry Burgmann-penned “Dead Man’s Guitar”, here at the GTC.
JR Sellers Dead Man’s Guitar
Artist photo by Peter Taylor // Bio quote courtesy of JR Sellers
Dead Man’s Guitar written by Garry Burgmann
JR Sellers – vocals/backing vocals
Matt Windler – guitar/bass/backing vocals
Garry Burgmann – guitar
Jovan Šatrić – drums
Viktor Kostadinov – piano
Produced by – JR Sellers and the St Leonardo Swangers
Recorded at Mussel Shells, Portslade; Small Pond, Brighton; Michigan Blessings, Lansing
Engineered by Matt Windler, Diana Stone
Mixed by Viktor Kostadinov
Mixed at Michigan Blessings, Lansing MI
Video – Danilo Stojic at Uzicevision
Camera – Peter Taylor
“JR SELLERS & THE SAN LEONARDO SWANGERS unfurl their sonic picnic blanket where others might fear to tread, let alone settle down for an aural nibble. A sublime and ever soulful quartet; they journey through Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, Candi Staton and Jim Ford, Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams, and many connecting points in between.” – bio