BELLOWS FALLS — “I was always writing songs, since I was a teen, but I probably wrote 200 songs before I wrote a really good one,” Gurf Morlix says in his bio on gurfmorlix.com. “For me, it was a tough code to crack.”
Morlix performs on Thursday, May 16, at the Windham Ballroom at Popolo, 36 The Square.
The perspective of this producer, singer, guitarist, and songwriter on his body of work may be somewhat skewed by his years of working with such talents as Blaze Foley, Lucinda Williams, Butch Hancock, Robert Earl Keen, Mary Gauthier, and Ray Wylie Hubbard.
Nearly two decades after 2000's Toad of Titicaca - his debut as a solo artist - Morlix deems the nine new cuts that constitute his 10th solo album, Impossible Blue (released Feb. 8 on Rootball Records), to be “the best songs I've ever written.”