Scott Walker was born in Hamilton, Ohio, as Noel Scott Engel in 1943. After much moving around the US as a child he found himself in California in the late fifties where an interest in acting and music saw some moderate success culminating in him playing bass as a session musician and as a member […]
Although Scott Walker wrote songs in his own right, he paid a lot of attention to the songs that inspired him as written by other artists. Consequently he became known as a great interpreter of poignant songs of love as well as poetic and/or gritty classics. Traditionally, from the first Walker Brothers albums up to Scott 4, Scott Walker […]
In recent years the release of a new Scott Walker album has polarised or perhaps horrified as many as have fallen at his feet. Soused is no exception and when one sees the less than two minute promo (an excerpt from Bull partly sung in Latin) it might be seen more as a warning than […]
If you wish to investigate this record you may first need to accept some facts that might seem disquieting. First of all the album has been called a covers album, it’s not, it’s stirring interpretations, and this in essence, is the difference between an artist and a copyist. Although it would be impossible to inject […]
One of the classic albums of the sixties, Scott 3 from 1969 was Scott Walker crooning in a wash of orchestra (C/- Wally Stott) with a moody magnificence, powerful lyrics and commanding voice. But this was the beginning of the end for Scott Walker the pop star. As Bowie was inventing himself as a pop […]