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| "Self Made Soul" from Cameron "Damn" MacDonald Boomer makes his debut when most his age are either cashing it in or cashing out. Why so long coming? Just like a Century plant that waits twenty years to blossom, some of us do the same and Cameron "Damn" MacDonald has done just that in his debut release, "Self Made Soul." "Did you know that at the base of a Century plant there are bulbs that sit waiting for years for their moment to bloom. After about twenty years of working up to it, this long leafy plant sends out an enormous flowering thirty-foot stock that birds and bees flock to. After five years of glory the majestic bloom dies off and again the plant sits dormant for another twenty long years before the next bloom repeats the process. Like a great many of us, we bloomed once in our twenties and now a quarter of a century later we're blooming again. These plants are a great metaphor for our lives. Such is my story, a late blooming Baby Boomer, who, until now, few have heard of. But at age forty-five, I have just recorded what I believe is my life's work. The album of songs I dreamed I would make. I put all of my heart, my mind, and my soul, everything into every song and lyric on this album." "I've been called a Soundscaping Wordsmith of Acoustic Rock, Some call it "Thought Rock" some say it's somewhere between "Adult-Contemporary-Soul and Alternative-Country-Blues" I call it, "Self-Made Soul". Regardless, they're the kind of songs that keep you sitting in your car long after you put it in park. The lyrics captivate and penetrate you, they contemplate and dissipate you, they stimulate your fate and point you home. The album is called "Self Made Soul" by Cameron "Damn" Macdonald, The theme and focus is the late blooming baby boomers and the self-made souls of an entire generation. It's a niche that spans a demographic gulf of eighty million Americans, and like the Century plant, it's time to come of age again. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |