Hugh Pool (born Hugh Eustis Potts Pool, March 17, 1964, Mars, Pennsylvania) is an American musician, songwriter, and producer who plays guitar in a unique style that melds traditional Delta blues, country music and classic and psychedelic rock and roll. His instrument of choice is a National Steel Triolian, a resonator guitar somewhat like a Dobro, played with a spark plug wrench through an Ibanez TS-9 overdrive pedal and a Dunlop Dyna comp compressor. He also plays Harmonica, Banjo, Lap Steel, Mandolin, sings and plays standard electric guitars.
Inspired by the album Will the Circle Be Unbroken, Neil Young, Deep Purple, Bob Dylan, The Allman Brothers and Creedence Clearwater Revival, Pool started playing the guitar at the age of 15 . At the age of 20, Hugh moved to New York City and began performing in the city's subway system. During this time he frequented The Sun Mountain Cafe, The Speakeasy and Matt Uminov Guitars, where he befriended and played with Chris Whitley and John Campbell, until their respective and untimely deaths.
Give me a moment to try and explain it
And how it has changed the man that I am
Life has a way when you try to arrange it
Of making a fool of your best laid plans
Guess what I'm trying to say
Is you took me by surprise
One word is all that it takes
Forever is on my mind it happens every time
I hear the sweetest sound
My world stops turning round
Like I'm holy ground when you call my name
It sets the sky on fire
Burning with my desire
Stronger deeper higher
When you call my name
The way that it moves me
It's simply amazing
Yet somehow it seems much bigger than words
When you call my name angels start singing
The most beautiful sound that I've ever heard
And it starts all over again this feeling deep inside
A blessed chain of events, a heaven sent design
It happens every time
When you call my name