“Holy Ghost Blues”, the lead single from Silas Nello’s forthcoming From West Hollywood EP is a bit of a paradox. The song originally appeared on his 2018 debut full-length album, recorded in Dallas where he was living at the time. That version had a decidedly LA flair with its Sunset Strip swagger and snarl.
Nello subsequently moved to LA and is reintroducing himself with a solo, stripped down version of the song that has, well, a Texas flavor. Armed with just a harmonica and an acoustic guitar, he leans into the dusty blues side of the song, the kind you’d like to hear while sitting beside a campfire at dusk in the Texas plains.
Says Nello about the song:
It came to me in a dream – a sort of fantasized crossroads moment of how mankind trades this for that and we don’t realize until the deal is already done. I wrote this song at the wet bar of my then 1980s home just North of Dallas sometime in 2016.
Twangville is honored to premiere “Holy Ghost Blues, the lead single from Silas Nello’s forthcoming From West Hollywood EP. Look for the ep, which features 4 reworked Nello originals plus one Bob Dylan cover, this fall.
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