15. Get Outa Here

Get Outa Here

Fifteen tracks in, the record throws you out. It is a closer with a sense of humour about itself — the musical equivalent of turning the house lights on at the end of the night.

The last song on Stormy, and a Wells original like almost everything before it.

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.