“It’s been a really intense year for me, personally, so a lot of that has gone into the music and I got to produce the record myself this time,” Sayce reflects. “My dad passed away and I took some time after that happened. He passed away just under a year ago and I went into the studio about four or five months after… I’m grateful to have this as an outlet and it really is an opportunity to express where I am now, where I’ve been over the last 18 months. I really think it’s about finding that balance where the music is authentic and it’s blues-rooted, which is where I come from. I’ve tried to do other things, when someone [from a record label] says, ‘We want to hear a more ‘poppy’ song’, so you try it as an exercise to see what that would feel like and it just feels like I’m wearing somebody else’s clothes. It doesn’t feel right, it doesn’t fit. So this is a snapshot of who I am and where I am right now.”
As well as being a purveyor of some of the most committed, fluent playing you’ll hear anywhere, Sayce is justly known as a tone hound and, during our half hour with him, he gave us a masterclass in road-proven tone tips for electric blues. Plus he showed us some of the licks and techniques that make him such a dynamic, expressive player. But first, it’s time to put a smile on your ’Face…
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