2014 release from New Zealand Blues giant.
An early career change and
passion for rhythm and blues and roots music led a sixteen year old Midge to
join the 1960’s band Bari and the Breakaways. At the end the 60’s Midge joined
the NZBC working in radio, however music performance pulled him in again with
the Wellington cult band The Country Flyers; followed by several years in
Australia with The Phil Manning Band. On return to New Zealand in the mid 80’s
he began a solo career forming The Midge Marsden Connection and then The Midge
Marsden Band.
Based on the very successful album Travel n Time (2008) Midge started work on
the concept album Back to the Well in 2012.
In collaboration with songwriters Neil Hannan, Arthur Baysting, and Alex
Deane, Midge drew from life experiences growing up in Taranaki, performing and
touring in America, his early music life in Wellington. Also included are cover
versions of some much loved songs that 'fit the concept' of the record.The
outcome is a very different and personal themed album. In his own words Midge
says 'this is a project unlike anything I have done before and I hope that
people enjoy the end result Back to the Well'
Love is an Ocean
Maxton, Mo and Bloxie
I'll Drown in my own
Tears
Struggling Man
Down to the Bone
That's what I Love
Payback in
the Pipeline
Back to the Well
Big Medicine
Growing out of the
Blues
One Bad Hammer
That's no way to get along
Tiger Town
Time is
on my Side
