Bleu Edmondson














Bleu Edmondson
Bleu Edmondson


With The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be, Bleu Edmondson’s long-awaited follow-up to 2007’s critically acclaimed Lost Boy, the southern-fried country rocker embarked on a search for truth, stripping back layers of regret, loss, and longing to uncover a renewed, albeit somewhat painfully soul-baring, view of himself and the world around him.  He dug deeper into what the music meant to him as a musician, a writer and a man. “Writing is like holding up a mirror to those darkest corners of our lives that we keep hidden,” confides the raspy-throated singer.  “It’s not always a pretty reflection, but it’s real and it matters.”  The collection of songs ministers to the saint and the sinner in each of us. It is an amalgamation of those touch points and influences that give us permission to question, confront and raise a little hell on Saturday night.

For the disc’s debut single, “No Room for Mercy,” the soulful singer/songwriter paints a vivid picture of the painful unraveling of a relationship, with a south Texas thunderstorm as a symbolic backdrop.  The raw wounds of deception, anger and disappointment are ripped wide open as the betrayed singer tells his lover that there is a price for what she has done and “you won’t lie to me anymore.”  Unlike some of his songwriting peers in other genres, Bleu chooses not to resolve the situation – or to explain in detail the circumstances involved – opting instead to allow the listener room to weave their own experiences into the song’s storyline. 

Edmondson’s lyrics convey a worldly perspective of one who has lived a life balanced on the edge – of success and failure, love and hate, elation and despair – with his trademark grit and unselfconscious vulnerability intact.   There is no sugar-coating in his songs; he simply calls it like he sees it. 

His men are flawed, with the brooding darkness of someone who has loved, lied and lost but for reason untold, repeats his mistakes time and again; and they are also vulnerable, with a desolate loneliness of someone who has been loved, been lied to and been left behind.   Sometimes they are scared little boys, strangers to themselves and mysteries to those around them.  But at the end of the day, they love a good party.

The women in Edmondson’s songs are innocent in one moment, insincere in the next, and unable to love the man who is willing to give them his heart.  They dance, they cry, they lose faith, they scream, and they love and hate interchangeably.  They are omnipresent, sometimes appearing as a barefoot angel sent to save the lost souls living life on the outside, or other times as a past-her-prime party girl who still has the boys fighting for her attention – and anything else she might surrender.

The couples he writes of lose their minds, quench each other’s thirsts, lie and fail to keep their promises; they fear, they take chances and through it all they love, with an urgent intensity that speaks to the desperation in their lives.

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Average Rating : 0              Total Reviews: 478


Bleu Edmondson  10/17/2007            
Justin
This new CD is going to put Bleu into a level on his own, this CD is unbelievable! Anyone got any news on when this CD is going to be shipped?
Bleu Edmondson  10/14/2007            
Without music, life would be a mistake.
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
Bleu Edmondson  10/14/2007            
just a girl
AMAZING is the only word to descrive this album! PURELY AMAZING!
Bleu Edmondson  10/14/2007            
A+
I personally LOVE this cd! I think that it is his best cd he has recorded. As for some people saying that it is too emotional or as some would like to say, "EMO", all music has emotions in it. Whether sad or happy, it all came from someone's heart and experience. It probably isn't the Bleu you've known because the last cd he recorded was 4 or 5 years ago, I'm sure that a lot of things have happened and that he's changed since then. Everyone changes over time, it's life. I honestly do LOVE this cd and really appreciate the lyrics. Well worth the money! LOST BOY iS AMAZiNG!!
Bleu Edmondson  10/14/2007            
I WAS a fan of Bleu
This isn't the Bleu we've known. He's whinny and extremely emotional on this cd. Sounds like matchbox 20 or alanis morriset wrote all these songs. Not worth buying if you haven't already.
Bleu Edmondson  10/11/2007            
Kansas
Does anyone know when this cd is really coming out? I'm a big Bleu fan and can't wait to hear all this new stuff, but hell, I can't find it anywhere.
Bleu Edmondson  10/08/2007            
GDA
Hey Monkey, first of all, assuming you are a male, find a real woman, it feels better. Secondly, last time I checked the artist (that would be Bleu) has nothing to do with the process of releasing the cd after it is made. Give the guy a break, it is an incredible cd. How about this...quit spending money on footballs to hump and go to LSTunes and download it...also, quit being a broke dick.
Bleu Edmondson  10/08/2007            
Bugg
I agree. I was hesitant to buy this cd at first, but now am glad that I did. It is one of the best cds I have ever purchased.
Bleu Edmondson  10/05/2007            
like a monkey f-in a football
does he even know when his own cd is coming out?
Bleu Edmondson  10/05/2007            
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