Video: Guy Blakeslee, ‘Sometimes’

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Guy Blakeslee (Photo by Lael Neale)

“What’s the point in going / where you know what you will find? / So I try my best / to lose my way sometimes,” Guy Blakeslee sings on his woozy new single “Sometimes,” a hymn to living the moment and staying open to any possibility.

It’s the second single from the Entrance Band main man’s solo album “Postcards From the Edge,” arriving Feb. 5 via his own Entrance Records. “Sometimes” has that bluesy New Orleans sound, and that’s partly where the song was made, with Lael Neale, Hale May and Rachel Fannan providing background vocals, Enrique Tena Padilla producing and the trumpet coming courtesy of Matt Aguiluz, who is Preservation Hall Studio’s engineer/production manager.

Here’s how Blakeslee backgrounds the tune:

“A few summers ago, my life had come crashing down. You could say I had destroyed it. Abandoning all illusions of security and leaping off the uncertain edge, I landed in a tiny windowless room overflowing with my broken musical instruments. A chance encounter with a friend of a friend led me to a cat-sitting gig in an old Hollywood apartment where Man Ray and Orson Welles had once lived. When I wasn’t chasing the devious felines up and down many flights of ancient stairs, I would lose myself for hours at the well-worn piano, where I could feel my former identity slipping away.

“A sudden windfall of unexpected money appeared, and days later I was on a plane to Spain to meet my Belgian friends. Floating on my back in a Spanish swimming pool, in a moment of weightlessness and surrender, I pondered with relaxed clarity my strange fortune — after risking everything without a plan, I had arrived in that perfect stay of unknowing, of beginning anew. I had answered the call of destiny and was reincarnated as the Fool in the Tarot, wandering into the present without a care in the world. Just like in the Tarot, the journey I was undertaking would lead me through the deepest shadows of despair and to exalted heights of ecstasy, but I was not thinking about the future. In the weeks that followed, as I walked the empty streets of Brussels late at night, singing to the rhythm of my own echoing footsteps, the song ‘Sometimes’ was born.”

Neale films the video for the song here:

||| Watch: The video for “Sometimes”

||| Previously: “Postcards From the Edge”