Gareth Dickson is best known for his live accompaniment of English singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan -- but that shouldn't be all the guitarist is known for. Dickson's latest collection of songs, Invisible String, solidifies his position as a highly skilled singer in his own right. The album is an assortment of live tracks Dickson recorded on his travels through Europe, a journey that took him from Istanbul to Paris and everywhere in between.
Our Song of the Week "Like a Clock" is a haunting meditation on spirituality, a delicate combination of fingerpicked guitar and vocals that echo one of Dickson's musical inspirations, Nick Drake.
"I initially recorded this track a good few years ago and released it on my Collected Recordings album, but the original version is a good deal more lo-fi than this one believe it or not," he tells The Bluegrass Situation.
"It's about finding yourself turning to a god of some kind, despite having reservations about doing so due to the suffering in the world, after exhausting the first searches for meaning that many people go through -- namely science, art and love. In that order, in my case. At the same time, however, I never felt the need to go back to any of the established religions."
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