Biografie van Doug Hoekstra
It has only been a few months since Doug Hoekstra launched his breakthrough fourth album 'Around the Margins', but, now even with appreciative reviews for it still coming in, the tireless Nashville based musician has already returned with a fifth studio outing, 'The Past Is Never Past'.
When Hoekstra was recording 'Around the Margins', he cut over twenty five songs, only fifteen of which made the final mix. 'The Past is Never Past' features many of these other songs, and also a couple of new pieces, as well as various other rarities which had previously appeared as songwriting demos or as exclusives on special compilations, magazines and websites.
'The Past Is Never Past', which features an opening and a reprised version of one song 'If The World Was Blind' and a cover of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's 'Ballad Of The Soldier's Wife', comes across as seamless. Hoekstra is a remarkably eclectic and fluent performer, able to turn his hand to the blues, country, pop, rock, folk and gospel, and to flow seemingly effortlessly, sometimes several times in the same song, from one of these genres to another.
While composed over the space of a decade, 'The Past Is Never the Past' tackles universal themes and issues that are timeless. Stunningly poignant, compassionate, but never cynical, although the past is indeed never allowed to be forgotten about on it, this is an album that is as equally strikingly relevant now and in the future.
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