Setting the tone with textured percussion and an intricate acoustic guitar melody, Cancion Franklin opens Blue Jeans with intrigue and emotive lyrics as he sings, “Hey momma, I’m passing through, I’ve got a little lineof credit and nothing to do…”
The opus expands into a heartfelt Americana-Folk energy as Cancion Franklin sings about “the plans he made, the juke joints they took him to, and every bad turn he’s taken to find a space that’s still left to be original.”
We appreciate the New York-based artists’s poetic prowess, his smoky baritone vocal timbre and ability to take us on a narrative-based journey with his prose. We learn that the artist plays traditional American music with the intention “to find the space that’s still left to be original”, and Blue Jeans does exactly that!
Cancion Franklin is originally from Tucson, Arizona, his musical life began when he first heard the blues as a child. The artist confesses, “Howlin’ Wolf blew my small mind wide open.”
The rising star moved to New Jersey to attend college and to pursue his musical dreams, and tell us, “I took the NJ transit to play dives in North Jersey that aren’t there anymore, to whichever drunks happened to be in bathrooms, train stations, houses, dive bars and barns. Each show became a push towards a higher level of expression.”
We love the authenticity that Cancion Franklin shares with his artistry and have added Blue Jeans to our New Music Spotlight playlist, whilst we continue to stream his wider discography including Just Made Rent and Hard Times.