The Howard Hughes Suite - Transcendental Medication

Transcendental Medication is a track taken from the album High & Lonesome. It’s a wonderful sound, everything you hear on this album was created by using pedal steel guitar as the sole/soul sound source; at times unrecognisable, but always affecting.

Here’s an edit of the track, the full version being available on the album, which you can listen to on Spotify…

So who is behind The Howard Hughes Suite? This is what we know:

The Howard Hughes Suite is a modern-day cosmic cowboy. He stoically keeps a low profile and hunkers down in his home studio in the South West of England with his faithful instruments, away from the noise of crowded gig venues or the idle chatter between takes during session work, once his mainstay. From this isolated musical outpost he surveys Americana landscapes with a reassuringly classic, but distinctly widescreen, psychedelic pioneering spirit.

I think what drew me to this track was the parallels with KLF’s Chill Out, especially the steel guitar used on Madrugada Eterna…