Steve Louw - Between Time (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Legendary South African blues rock, country, and Americana singer-songwriter and guitarist, Steve Louw’s highly anticipated third solo album Between Time.

With Between Time, he explores those moments that fall outside the strict constructs of time with songs that have past, present, and future, while using imagery that’s both timeless and present. Cut live in the studio with his same band; the music has a transcendent quality, a chemistry that blends craft and inspiration into something mystical.

The stars align on three songs recorded back-to-back on the same day. The heartfelt “Killers”, where ‘Killers with numbers not names, came killing across the plains’, flows into, ‘In the Badlands, sand turned to dust, outsiders stand, steel turned to rust’, on the driving “Giants Walk The Land” (co-written with Midnight Oil’s Jim Moginie), and to a new beginning on “Time to Get On”, ‘As we face to the sun, it’s time to get on’.

Hearing the band discover the inherent passion and tenderness within the songs is part of the pleasure of Between Time. Their chemistry is evident on the low-down shuffle of “Do Me Good” and the country honk of “Alibi”. They swing hard on “Get Real Gone” and ratchet up the tension on “Flowers on The Graves of Doves”, a ringing, roiling number that conjures the mystery of early R.E.M.

You feel the band as much as you hear them, as on “Highway to the Sun”, the eight-minute exit to the 20-song collection. Louw is as much a member of the band as he is its leader. His steady, propulsive guitar playing providing as much of a connective tissue as his unguarded voice.

Collaborative energy is a crucial element of Between Time, extending to guest appearances by Joe Bonamassa, who accentuates the Blues on “Cruel Hand of Fate” with an explosive country-style solo. Added to that is Jim Moginie, whose eclectic guitar sound and creative force evoke the natural world’s power on “Giants Walk The Land”, and Hammond maestro Lachy Doley, who teases out the reassuring comfort lurking within “Streets of Rain”.

TRACKLIST

1. Steve Louw - Alibi
2. Steve Louw - We Had it All
3. Steve Louw - Beggar Tonight
4. Steve Louw - Giants Walk the Land
5. Steve Louw - Killers
6. Steve Louw - StreetJanes Dream#3
7. Steve Louw - Do Me Good
8. Steve Louw - Flowers from the Graves of Doves
9. Steve Louw - Don't Leave a Heart Alone
10. Steve Louw - Time to Get On
11. Steve Louw - Get Real Gone
12. Steve Louw - The Way Your Heart Beats
13. Steve Louw - Take Me for a Ride
14. Steve Louw - Streets of Rain
15. Steve Louw - Cruel Hand of Fate
16. Steve Louw - Free to Fly
17. Steve Louw - You 'n Me Tonight
18. Steve Louw - Cold Cold Rails
19. Steve Louw - Ever Be Undone
20. Steve Louw - Highway to the Sun



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