I have been following Mick Kolassa\u2019s career for nearly two decades and his albums have never disappointed. Such is the case with his newest release Wasted Youth.<\/i><\/p>\n
Kolassa is a simple modern-day blues musician, who spins his tales from his life experiences and sets them to music.<\/p>\n
As with many people, 2020 was not kind to Mick Kolassa. He lost his wife and several friends to the virus. He has taken these experiences, and others, and used them to help create his latest album. The 11 original songs and one cover look back and reflect upon life and humanity.<\/p>\n
The two songs that highlight the album could only have been written by a person who has passed retirement age. \u201cWasted Youth\u201d is a lament about looking back at the lost possibilities of having been young and \u201cThrowing Away These Blues\u201d is about the redemption of standing up to life. <\/p>\n
He has always been able to write a love song. \u201cI\u2019m Missing You\u201d is an up-tempo piece that runs counter to the message, while \u201cEasy Doesn\u2019t Live Here Anymore\u201d deals with the difficulties of love. <\/p>\n
Again, \u201cPieces Of My Past\u201d can only really be appreciated by people who has downsized their possessions and moved away from what they thought important. <\/p>\n
The only non-original song is \u201cDarkness To Light.\u201d It is a wonderfully creative melding of three songs: War\u2019s \u201cSlipping Into Darkness,\u201d The Youngblood\u2019s \u201cDarkness Darkness,\u201d and the old traditional folk song, \u201cWayfaring Stranger.\u201d The ending brings a spiritual note to the other two songs.<\/p>\n
Mick Kolassa has produced a very personal release that not only looks at the past year of his life but also his seven decades on Earth. It is a journey worth joining with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":34415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10703],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-46253","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-mick-kolassa","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46253"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}