I Am The Portuguese Blues

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I Am the Portuguese Blues is the eighth full-length album released by Starflyer 59. With this album, the band returned to its past in multiple way. The band’s earlier albums had been characterized by loud guitar, but later albums saw the band progress to a softer sound, incorporating keyboard. I Am the Portuguese Blues saw the return of the sound from earlier album, as the band was stripped just to Jeff Cloud on ba, Frank Lenz on drum, and Jason Martin, the only person to perform on all of Starflyer 59’s album, handling guitar and vocal dutie. In addition, the album has a monochromatic cover, similar to those of Starflyer 59’s first three albums (Silver, Gold, and Americana). Many of the songs on I Am the Portuguese Blues were written years earlier as demos for an album to follow Americana. They were eventually scrapped, as the band decided to take a different musical direction for The Fashion Focu. The old demos were refined and combined with several new songs for I Am the Portuguese Blue. In regards to the title of the album, Martin, the band’s frontman said, .

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