If Tom Waits decided to sing some bluegrass-type songs dipped in a jar of blues spices he’d be as good as Bill Filipiak. 55-year-old Bill comes from the same cloth as Otis Taylor—as he unravels a gritty, upbeat, convincing array of bruised ballads of glittering fragments. Bits of glass in the sidewalk. There’s experience in his musical notes.
Medicine I Need (drops Oct 1 – independent) is Bill’s 3rd LP of welded-together dusty blues, undercurrents of burlesque, foot-stomping boots on the wooden porch & wailing harmonicas scaring off the crows. The penetration of his vintage-ness is ripe. He could sing folk, blues, minstrel & spirituals and still come out the real thing. “Fearing the Dawn” is country-blues brawn & grit.
Read more & check out Bill Filipiak’s recent single “Fearing the Dawn” at Americana Highways.