Do you remember your first record? Your first concert? Well this isn’t about that. This is about three artists/records that influenced you over the years –- you as a musician, . So letap talk about your road.
3 years old
Some of my earliest memories of music are of Paul Simon. My parents had the Beach Boys and the Beatles records, the Don McLean album “American Pie,” but I remember hearing Paul Simon and thinking what phenomenal music that was. And I still do think that. If you asked me to put on music from my iPod right now, Paul Simon would still be in there.
14 years old
I really enjoyed David Bowie in school. My songs are completely different than his. His are so raw and free in the songwriting stle, and mine aren’t as loose as that. But the images and stories, what it conjures up in your own mind, is a matter of inspiration.
Now (37 years old)
Elliott Smith is great. If I hadn’t heard Elliottap music, I wouldn’t have met (producer) Tom Rothrock, and if I hadn’t met Tom Rothrock, then you and I wouldn’t be talking right now.
Editor’s note: Tom Rothrock co-produced a handful of Elliott Smith records, including “Either/Or” and “XO,” and he also produced Bluntap first few records, including his breakout hit “Back to Bedlam.”
Blunt plays the on Saturday. Tickets, $46.70, are available via livenation.com. Christina Perri opens the show.
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Ricardo Baca is the founder and co-editor of , the former executive director of The UMS and an award-winning critic and journalist at The Denver Post.
