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In atramentous and white, analog bandage players whirl. The accompanist warms up his articulation with a actuality "whoa" to activate rural spirits. He acclaim tunes his guitar, sheepishly scrutinizes the camera, accomplish to the microphone, and the arena shifts. The silhouette of Leon Bridges walks in apathetic motion bottomward a darkened artery beneath a achromatic marquee: covering shoes shined, slacks pressed, acquainted hat agee at a abandoned angle. The malt-shop body exhausted shuffles. Afresh he belts out: "Baby, baby, baby, I'm advancing home."
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This, the aperture arena from the video for "Coming Home," was best people's aboriginal attending at Bridges, a 25-year-old Fort Worth, Texas, built-in who sparked a bent behest war anon afterwards a beck of the song premiered aftermost abatement on taste-making blog Gorilla Vs. Bear. Since then, he has become one of the best ballyhooed adolescent body singers in years, eliciting acclaim at South by Southwest and earning big synchs in iTunes and Beats commercials. Sam Cooke is the go-to allegory -- a accepted that seems ridiculously aerial until you absolutely apprehend him sing.
"It's crazy -- I didn't abound up with any of this music," reflects Bridges during a attenuate agenda breach at home in Dallas. Since signing with Columbia in backward 2014, he has toured constantly, including a arresting Backward Late Show performance, in the lead-up to his debut, Advancing Home, appear June 23. "All this shows that you can't advise body music. It has to be article already central you. It's not article that you can try to do -- it's who you are."
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Coming Home | Leon Bridges | Lyrics ☾☀ - YouTube | leon bridges coming home lyricsA aeon ago, his ability and out-of-nowhere ascendance would've led bodies to doubtable a capital alliance with the devil a la dejection fable Robert Johnson. But to sing body like he does takes adamantine assignment and adamantine times. Painfully shy as a kid (and still acutely bashful back he's not onstage), Bridges has a adorable actuality accentuation that suggests church-choir acquaintance -- but he was too afraid to absolutely audition. "I didn't anticipate I could sing," says Bridges. "I knew I could do being actuality and there, but didn't anticipate I was acceptable abundant to fit."
He describes his adolescence persona in abundant the aforementioned way -- as a pariah. Afterwards his parents afar back he was 7, he breach time amid burghal Fort Worth and burghal Dallas, area his ancestor formed at a association center. His ancestors was poor, and anon afterwards Hurricane Katrina, 10 ancestors from New Orleans briefly came to alive with him, his mother and his half-sister. He was amidst by people, but still acquainted alone. "I didn't apperceive area I fit in," he says. "I didn't accept any accompany at school. Bodies didn't appetite to be accompany [with me]. I had no place."
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Bridges idly dreamed of escape, drowning himself in the aforementioned music added kids his age were alert to. He didn't alike apperceive of the body greats he'd afterwards be compared to. "Nostalgia for me isn't Sam Cooke," he says, "as abundant as it's alert to a Ginuwine song or audition Dallas hip-hop and canonizing dancing to it in my garage."
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Leon Bridges - Coming Home Lyrics | Musixmatch | leon bridges coming home lyricsAt a adjacent association college, Bridges advised dance, aggressive by seeing his dad moonwalk as a kid, he says. He best up singing and guitar as a amusement at first, and eventually began arena at accessible mics and baby shows. His complete acquired from neo-soul, to folky R&B to acceptable body with horn -- ideal for the aftermost apathetic ball of the night. "A acquaintance asked if Sam Cooke was an inspiration. I'd never listened, but I capital to apperceive my roots, so I looked him up on YouTube and Pandora," says Bridges. "Once I heard it, I saw it -- that was the music that I capital to write."
But afterwards a brace of years arena locally, Bridges struggled to allure added than 20 bodies to shows. He bused tables and lived at home. Afterwards his mother absent her medical-field job, he got a additional one abrasion dishes. Afresh he met Austin Jenkins, guitarist from Austin psych-rock bandage White Denim, at a Fort Worth bar. He noticed Bridges' atypical '50s appearance appearance -- brittle slacks, affected collars, high-waist jeans, admirable best suits. ("It all started back one of my mom's earlier accompany gave me his adolescence clothes back I was a teenager," says Bridges of his look. "It's funny back bodies anticipate it's aloof a business scheme.") They took a photo, had a beer and ample they would apparently never accommodated afresh -- until Jenkins about stumbled aloft Bridges two weeks afterwards at a bounded dive, area he was arena to a army of five. The aboriginal song he played? "Coming Home."
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"He's singing to you, not at you," says Jenkins, who co-produced Advancing Home with adolescent White Denim accomplice Joshua Block, recording alive on all-analog gear, including a soundboard already endemic by The Grateful Dead. "He listened to Texas blues, actuality and R&B, and filtered it through himself. It's accurate and direct."
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Leon Bridges - Coming Home - Just Listen To This | leon bridges coming home lyricsThe songs on Advancing Home are somehow accompanying burning and nostalgic, animated and tearful, abracadabra abandoned memories of a vanished America. "Twistin and Groovin" describes the affair of his grandparents: "Up beneath that red dress are legs continued as the anchorage trees/She got a aureate smile, I apperceive she's the one for me in the room," he sings. "Brown Skin Girl" is a adulation letter to his ex-girlfriend. "Lisa Sawyer" pays accolade to his 1963-born mom of the aforementioned name. One of his proudest moments in a year abounding of them was advantageous off her debt in January.
"I don't like to address blatant body songs," says Bridges. "I'm autograph from the heart, belief about ancestors and truth. I aloof appetite bodies to see a 18-carat person."
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This adventure originally appeared in the July 4 affair of Billboard.
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