Jeremy Bass Premieres New Song, "The Greatest Fire"
Brooklyn singer/songwriter Jeremy Bass is currently prepping the release of his newest album, The Greatest Fire. Today, GuitarWorld.com presents the exclusive premiere of the album's title track. You can listen to it above.
"I wrote this tune in the turmoil leading into the election season. I wish I could say it was about Trump himself, but it's almost better that it's more about a state of mind that if felt like our entire culture was sinking into," Bass said of the song.
"Lies, deception, sugar-coating truths, hiding behind labels and names and rhetoric. The fact that politicians can still be so brazen to lie directly to their citizens' faces when we know they're lying in the first place, it creates a cyclical pattern where the value of words and the truth itself is distorted and degraded."
"I was sick of it," he continued, "and felt that so much effort, so much trying to uncover whatever the truth was supposed to mean was sapping my strength and the will to live and create which, moreso over any political moment or discovery, is where I feel the marrow of life is. And I felt distracted, like I was avoiding facing my own fears and anxieties by becoming wrapped up in the fears and anxieties of culture at large, which wasn't going to help anyone, least of all me."
"So this was an attempt to get back to that place, to tell all the negative chatter and destructive energy to go to hell, to face my own fears and desires that were burning inside of me."
The Greatest Fire is set for a January 19 release via Jungle Strut Music.
For more on Bass, follow along on Facebook.
Get The Pick Newsletter
All the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!
Thank you for reading 5 articles this month**
Join now for unlimited access
US pricing $3.99 per month or $39.00 per year
UK pricing £2.99 per month or £29.00 per year
Europe pricing €3.49 per month or €34.00 per year
*Read 5 free articles per month without a subscription
Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.
“You can only imagine the effect this had on the young Keith Richards and Eric Clapton”: 9 must-hear albums that fueled the British blues guitar boom
“We’ve made something really unique and special”: Thin Lizzy to release first new record in over 40 years – featuring brand new guitar parts from founding member Eric Bell and unheard Phil Lynott vocals