The Struts

Written By Megan Perry

A Song That Changed My Life: The Struts’ Luke Spiller on Gordon Lightfoot

The Band Members: Luke Spiller, lead vocals; Adam Slack, guitar; Jed Elliott, bass; Gethin Davies, drums.

The Storyteller: Luke Spiller

The Song:  The honey-smooth baritone voice of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Circle Is Small” struck a chord with modern-day troubadours, showing how richly detailed, vantage-from-afar storylines can be intertwined with gentle harmonic tension and sweet, piquant phrasing.

The Background: Luke Spiller — the charismatic, swaggering frontman known for his stadium-strength, operatic rock vocal performances with the verbose classic-rock revivalists The Struts — describes how Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Circle Is Small” revealed to him that an artist can “strive to be a wordsmith while also infusing beautiful melodies at the same time….” 

Megan Perry

Megan Perry Moore is an accomplished photographer recognized for her work featured in Rolling Stone, Guitar Player, Revolver, Electronic Musician, Music Connection, and SPIN. She also served as Alternative Press' In the Studio columnist and photographer. Megan is the author of two books - WIRED: Musicians’ Home Studios, (Rowman & Littlefield) and How to Be a Record Producer in the Digital Era (Penguin Random House/Billboard Books).

Her photographic work includes solo exhibitions in RealNetworks, Circa, and Insect Mind in Seattle, WA. Megan developed the photographic series Saving the Soul of the Snow Leopard in conjunction with the Snow Leopard Trust as part of their annual fundraiser.

Currently, Megan is a music journliast and photographer for Music Connection. Her new art space, - the gallery- highlights large-scale photographic collections. She is also working on the book WIRED v2.0 - a follow-up to WIRED - a behind-the-scenes depiction of artists at work in their personal recording spaces that included Snoop Dogg, Sonic Youth, No Doubt, and many others

Contact: megan@meganperry.com / 310-261-5393

https://www.meganperry.com
Previous

Jack White

Next

Wet Leg