Robert Sarazin Blake | Valentine's Day Show
Since 2015, Bellingham, WA Songwriter and performer, Robert Sarazin Blake has been collaborating with Hudson Valley musicians Lee Falco, Brandon Morrison, Will Bryant, & Connor Kennedy. Their collaboration on Blake’s 2017 album ‘Recitative’ earned an A- from Rock Critic Robert Christgau who wrote: "Chants that riff on the titles ‘Work,’ ‘Couples,’ and ‘Single Women’ are as instantly indelible as the Springsteen, Weill, and Van Morrison lifts woven in."
Starting in March of 2020 and resuming in May of 2023 Blake and the band, along with Cindy Cashdollar, recorded 8 songs that investigate life, love and the pursuit of happiness.
You can hear Joni Mitchell's Hejira, Lou Reed’s New York. Lucinda William’s Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, and Greg Brown’s Poet Game floating in and out on a breeze through the open spring studio windows, but mostly you’ll hear the baritone voice and the stories.
The first cut ‘New York City/Brookly Bridge’ celebrates the thriving humanity of Manhattan.
New York is not America it’s an island it’s New York
rich kids come to get famous, immigrants come to work
the city belongs to everyone, make love, make passes
Lady flies a sign ‘bring me your huddled masses’.
Let The Longing Run Wild & Free is the 13th album of original songs written by the man from the most NW corner, of the most NW city, of the most NW state, in the lower 48.