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Das Debut-Album "Hobo" von Charlie Winston ist so ausgereift wie abwechslungsreich und immer wieder überraschend. Hier könnt Ihr in alle Songs reinhören und erfahrt auch noch von unserem Newcomer des Monats persönlich, was sich hinter den Texten und der Musik verbirgt!

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In Your Hands

"When travelling through Europe, with just a guitar on my back, I met a lot of young African men on the beaches and in the streets who had left their countries to make some money in the western world to send back to their families who were living in poverty. It struck me how brave they were to make such a sacrifice for their families leaving home, often putting their destiny into the hands of God. The irony of most stories, however, was that they would usually end up having to put their fate into the hands of the paper pushers who hand out work permits. I remember one man saying to me, ‘I so want to work and I will work very hard all day but they don't let me."

Like A Hobo

"As Dylan said, ‘when you got nothing, you got nothing to lose'. Modern western culture is aimed at the middle classes who are told what to do and when to do it, taking away the power of the individual and giving it to large corporations. We are encouraged to work hard in boring, impersonal jobs so that we can spend more money on mass produced new technologies in sterile shopping malls, with the illusion that we are expressing ourselves; shopping being that form of expression. Living like a hobo in your mind is being free of all of this: Listening to one's own truth; Not wanting for more than you have; Not being afraid of making mistakes; Creating."

Kick The Bucket

"For my 21st birthday I went to India for a month, a beautiful country with beautiful people. Life and death are unavoidably all part of the cycle. However, there is no fear of either because they are so exposed and inter-connected. Old people are not hidden away in hospitals or special homes. They are embraced. Life is full because death is accepted and vice versa. I am always puzzled by people who get depressed about getting older. I just think, ‘Wow! I'm 30 and I'm still alive! Right, what shall I do next?"

I Love Your Smile

"It's too easy to find sadness when worrying about what others think. Trying to be right all the time leads to loneliness. And those who have problems with others usually have the same problems with themselves. With so many notions of fear in our world everyone looks inward - rather than outward and seeing how wonderful life is and sharing that feeling, simply with a smile."

My Life As A Duck

"I was with friends talking about which animal we would like to be in the next life. Every one else chose glamorous animals like tigers and eagles I could only see myself as a duck because a duck is beautiful, is funny, it can walk, swim, fly and is good to eat. My friends challenged me to write a song with the title "My Life As A Duck" and in ten minutes I had scribbled the words except for the last line. A week later I played the song to my Mum who said "that's strange, do you remember when you were children and boasting about how much you knew I would say to you that ‘I know everything about you your Father was a duck'?" which completed the song and brought its meaning full circle.!

Boxes

"Part of growing-up can be realising that we are constantly being put, and putting other people and things, into boxes in order to understand the world. We are expected to create identities for ourselves in order to fit in. For example, when meeting another adult one common question is, ‘so, what do you do?' But no one asks children that because children are not defined by their discipline in one thing, but rather their exploration of all things. Things might be very different if people weren't so quick to judge."

Calling Me

"When someone close dies suddenly one of the hardest things to deal with is wishing you could have said goodbye to them. I imagined what it must be like for the person who is deceased. What can they hear when loved ones cry out to them from the living world. How must it feel (if indeed they do still feel) to hear but not be able to reply?"

Tongue Tied

"It can make such a huge difference when you make an effort to speak another person's language. You feel vulnerable and have to be ready to be laughed at but that's the fun of learning it. However, I learnt a little bit of Spanish before attempting French, which causes problems, especially when trying to chat up French girls and confusing the languages. I get tongue tied."

Soundtrack to Falling In Love

"A lot of writers write about love. But what is love in the modern world that focuses so much on the incomplete individual with commercial slogans like... Because You're Worth It? The animal called love is changing its behaviour because people's social behaviours are changing. In order to be tempted to consume more we are told that we don't have enough to be truly happy. Therefore, nothing is adequate and there is always better. The priority seems to be on personal comfort and convenience. But does this attitude not dilute our concept of hardship, which, in turn, dilutes our concept of loving?"

Generation Spent

"Plastic shopping bags. Mobile phones. Premature sell-by dates. Excessive packaging. Last year's clothes. Empty plastic bottles. Low quality furniture. Automated customer services. etc. etc. Once upon a time money was not the key to living and things were made to last for as long as they could."

Every Step

"I found a beautiful bird. It was free. It flew into my life and I loved its freedom. But its wings had become damaged from living in a cage its whole life. I tried to help fix those wings so that it could always fly into my life but the bird did not know what I was doing and became unhappy. This beautiful bird had only known life in a cage. It expected me to put it in one too. But I didn't, I didn't want to love it in a cage so I had to let it fly away. You can't love someone if they don't love themselves."

My Name

"A few years ago when I was on tour in America, I decided to take the bible from a hotel room to read the Old Testament on the bus. Sometimes interesting, sometimes painfully tedious, what stayed with me was the continuous threats of punishment and elimination God made to his people. In this song, he proves his true love, by putting mankind out of its perpetual misery. Rather like helping a diseased animal to its inevitable grave. This is God's final message of disappointment, anger and ultimate love."