THE TRAVELIN' BAND: "TEXAS SKY"

To play music means to read every time in a different way what has already been written and played, turning it into something of one's own.
You can understand this listening to "Texas Sky", which goes over all the story of the american music again, the one discovered snooping into daddy's record collection, mixed with Rock'n'Roll and Swing; Quite a mythical journey likes the one of the Flying Hollander, a journey that rises the fundamental experience.
A journey of knowledge and introspection, a mythical and kerouackian experience that brings far away but paradoxically close to one's more real and originally being. There where everything has changed, one feels itself at home more than where he was born.

One invisible line seems to run throughout places so far away from each other in space and culture. Another sky overlaps the one of the Emilian lowlands, the sky of Texas, where blues was born, in Los Angeles and New Orleans, the same that stays outside the confidential places log the Guadalupe and outside the clubs, there where the music is the rhythm which accompanies each movement, there where blues is not a genre for few intellectuals but is popular, for everyone and of everyone.
Even though the line is invisible, it seems that the Travelin' Band has cough it.

[Elisa Fornaciari]