PETER BLACHLEY debut album, Nevada Sky.

Published: Jan. 14, 2015, 10 p.m.

b'Nevada Sky\\xa0documents a life of inspiration, reinvention, and marks a profound coming together of many of the facets of Blachley\\u2019s life ,family, photography, music, loves won and lost, and professional and personal aspirations.In Blachley\\u2019s journey, he\\u2019s been a carpenter and served in Vietnam. His second act was being a music video pioneer through making culture-defining videos with the Stray Cats, George Thorogood, and Duran Duran as an executive producer/marketing visionary. During this time, Blachley worked at Capitol/EMI, and he went from mailroom up to being a\\xa0music marketing exec before cross-fading to EMI\\u2019s Picture Music International as music video\\xa0executive, content producer and\\xa0marketerer. At 50, his music business tenure ended, and he reinvented himself as a gallery owner, co-finding the fine art music photography gallery the Morrison Hotel Gallery with partners Richard Horowitz and iconic photographer Henry Diltz.\\u201cThere is hope in the fact that you can always reinvent yourself. Reinventing is about finding something you want to do everyday, something that makes you happy, and finding a way to make money doing it,\\u201d .\\xa0For his third act, Peter Blachley is emerging as a captivating singer-songwriter with his debut album,Nevada Sky.\\xa0It\\u2019s one of those storyteller albums that instantly feel like an old friend. It recalls the work of CSN, John Stewart, Neil Young, Waylon Jennings,\\xa0Ian Tyson. It stretches across the highways of high lonesome country, confessional folk, and swampy rock n\\u2019 roll and it authentically evokes the rugged mountains and big open skies of the West, and the burly swagger of the big cities of the east it is pure Americana through and through.Nevada Sky\\xa0folds family stories, personal and professional journeys, and lifelong dreams into one Americana storybook. Blachley says in conclusion \\u201cWith this album, I\\u2019ve left my legacy "'