Premiere: Todd Sharpville – “I Don’t Need To Know Your Name – Live” 

In a Blues Rock Review exclusive premiere watch Todd Sharpville perform “I Don’t Need To Know Your Name – Live.” The performance is from the Live At Rockpalast album. It was recorded in Bonn, Germany on 8th May 2023 for the WDR television network.

Sharpville tells Blues Rock Review, “I Don’t Need To Know Your Name is a heartfelt love song… It’s so hard to write love songs without falling into the trap of being stereotypically cheesy or trite, so this song had to evolve naturally, instinctively. The lyrics work on the pretext that “when you know, you know,” so much of the surface stuff is wholly irrelevant in contrast to the depth of emotion humans  can dedicate to one another.”

Todd adds, “I originally wrote the song inside out, starting with the solo section: the original studio version on my “Medication Time” album focuses around a beautiful 50’s style tenor sax solo from Roomful Of Blues maestro Mark Earley. I grew up listening to 50’s & 60’s music and have long associated my romantic instincts with those iconic King Curtis, Abraham “Boomie” Richman, Junior Walker, style tenor sax musings… They were all honoured through subsequent eras by players like Clarence Clemons (Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band), who always imbued those raspy, melodic vibes on everything they touched.”

Sharpville continues, “After creating a solo section that I could imagine slow dancing to, the lyrics started to come together. As a combat veteran of MANY failed relationships, the song hinges on the premise that new love can wash away each seemingly indelible stain of the past, as expressed by lyrics like “your eyes reveal a world beyond my pain.”

Todd concludes, “I still cling to the ethos that there’s not an emotional wound or scar that can’t be healed by the right kind of love. But we first need to believe in it in order for it to be capable of touching us (faith is the foundation of all genuine love). Just like in Peter Pan, fairies only die when we stop believing in ‘em!”