Splice Records Video Premiere: Colin Lake’s “Extraordinary Times”
OFFBEAT MAGAZINE
Offbeat Staff | November 18, 2020
Blue-eyed soul man Colin Lake has spent a lot time on the water. Somehow in 2008, Lake found himself washed ashore in his personal paradise: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. As he went to board a plane back to Portland, he met his future wife and the two would eventually plant roots in the Crescent City where he gigged around, playing various events at the Jazz Museum and holding a residency at d.b.a.
Before he and his wife spontaneously sold their home and set sail for the waters of the Caribbean in 2017, the blues and folk singer/guitarist recorded a series of songs in New Orleans that would become the aptly titled, Forces of Nature. Released last month via Splice Records, the album was recorded just before his high seas adventure with the help of Grammy-winner Eric Heigle, drummer for Lost Bayou Ramblers.