06 Angel's On The Wing

Angel's On The Wing

Flight turns up twice on this record, and the second time it has nothing to do with aircraft. “On the wing” is an old phrase for something in motion and not coming back — and paired with angels it lands somewhere between a blessing and a goodbye.

Wells wrote it, as he wrote all but one song here.

Stormy — John B. Wells on vocals and guitar.

Long before the Caravan, the voice that carries the broadcast was doing something else with itself. Stormy is a country rock record written and sung by John B. Wells — he wrote every song on it but one, and the arrangements are the work of someone who has spent a career listening to how sound is put together.

It is worth remembering what that career actually was. This is the man whose voice carried Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter and F-22 Raptor projects, national film trailers and museum exhibits — work that collected Emmy, Clio and Marconi awards. A composer, musician, writer, actor, martial arts instructor and aviator, described on his own site as a Renaissance man who savours the pursuit of knowledge from the arcane to the esoteric. The record is one more room in that house.

Every song is a Wells original except “You Don't Bring Me Flowers.” The album button adds all fifteen downloads to your cart at the single-track price; buy any one of them on its own instead if you would rather.