Hailing from Chicago, Terry Blade is a celebrated singer-songwriter who’s talent has been recognised in the form of multiple prestigious awards. During his decorated musical career, he’s applied his impressive sonic talent across a range of different styles and genres, framed by his own experience as a black queer artist.
Winning more than forty awards since 2020, such as Clouzine Magazine’s ‘Best Folk Song’ award for “Mister Robertson (Original Acoustic Version)” and ‘Best Spoken Word Album’ for American Descendant of Slavery, The Album, as well as twice winning a Gold Medal Award of Excellence from the Global Music Awards among a seemingly endless list of accolades and plaudits, his songwriting charm has touched the lives of scores of fans around the world.
Sharing multiple stellar releases since his 2020 debut record Misery, he now brings us his latest work with the ten-track album titled Ethos: Son of a Sharecropper. Taking the name ‘ethos’ in the LP’s title from the morals, values and beliefs of an individual or a wider culture as a whole, across his new record Terry Blade expresses his own ethos to listeners while drawing on his own lived experiences for inspiration; the ‘son of a sharecropper’ refers to his personal history of being descended from black American sharecroppers in Colerain, North Carolina.
Once again revealing the depth of his creativity and the versatility of his sonic output, on Ethos: Son of a Sharecropper the artist pivots to a new and unexplored style. Looking to American roots music as his muse, he tastefully delivers the often overlooked fact that ‘black music’ includes Americana music and was crucial to its development as a genre.
Setting his songwriting sights on the themes of self-identity, community, relationships, struggles and determination, across his latest record, Terry Blade serves up a beautiful and moving listening experience packed full of traditional instrumentation, deep and rich vocal work and a host of featured artists who all bring their own flair to Terry’s compelling songwriting and performances.
Listen to Ethos: Son of a Sharecropper below
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