Mega hit songwriter announces new album
Kent Blazy has announced the release of his new album, Me & My Guitar, recorded, mixed and engineered by Matt Allen at Allentown Studios located in Nashville, TN and mastered by Mayfield Mastering. Kent Blazy and Josh Martin recorded all guitar and vocals on the project and collaboration of Human Touch Guitars by Jayboy Adams. The new music is available to order on Kent Blazy’s website kentblazy.com. Streaming and download is available on all digital music platforms.
“This is the second record I have written and recorded during the COVID-19 lockdown. These songs are an aerial view of what I was watching in the past year and what the possibilities will be in the future. My aim was to create hope, joy and gratitude and of course, fun,” exclaims Kent Blazy!
After doing the Authentic record with a full band in July 2020, it was fun for Blazy to go into the studio with the amazing Josh Martin and do an acoustic record. Me & My Guitar tells the story of where six strings has led him and where he is still aiming to go. The project is a compliment, companion and continuation to the Authentic recording he released in 2020.
The project includes an unreleased song co-written by Garth Brooks, called “The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be.” While Brooks has never released the track, he has previewed it on his Facebook Live series Inside Studio G. Blazy shared the news with us during our “Live From Nashville” series on The Music Universe Podcast last November.
The song “Me & My Guitar” talks about his guitar feeling like a gift from Merlin, just like King Artur and his sword. “Merlin” was one of the first songs Blazy felt he had written a good song. It came from reading The Once and Future King. He played it in bands and doing solo gigs, and fans started liking the song and other bands started playing it. When Blazy was playing in Canada with Ian Tyson, he bought one of the first Larrivie guitars which were built in Toronto. Larrivie did not put his name or anything else on the headstock, so a friend of Blazy’s in Kentucky suggested his wife put Merlin on the headstock. It took her three months using Abalone and gold. She never did another one!
1. When This Is All Over – Kent Blazy
2. Just Another Old Man – Kent Blazy
3. Nashville Strong – Kent Blazy/Buffie Barel
4. Songman – Kent Blazy/Cory Batten
5. Rabbit Hole – Kent Blazy
6. Me and My Guitar – Kent Blazy
7. Human Touch – Kent Blazy/Jayboy Adams
8. Raindrops – Kent Blazy
9. The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be – Kent Blazy/Garth Brooks
10. The Truth – Kent Blazy
11. The Night John Lennon Died – Kent Blazy
12. The Times They Are a Changin – Bob Dylan
