Word: soloing
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...Musicians whose primary asset is their instrumental prowess - OK, guitarists - tend to fall victim to one or both of two mistakes when recording solo albums. The first is to assume that interesting guitar playing can somehow exist independently from interesting music; the second is to overcompensate for the previous assumption by focusing on the songs to the detriment of the hot licks that attracted people in the first place...
Sonny Landreth, who made his name as the guitarist for John Hiatt on the "Slow Turning" album about 10 years ago, manages to dodge both of these bullets on his second solo outing, "Levee Town," turning out a sturdy batch of bluesy "swamp pop" that's fairly dripping with riffsome virtuosity. Landreth's bailiwick is electric slide guitar, to which he brings a a killer sound and a revved-up attitude that takes the legacy of Ry Cooder and Lowell George and gooses...
...Your Lights On. Hip-hop followers probably remember him from the 1990s as the frontman of the proudly uncouth, roughneck trio House of Pain. After four years with that group, he quit, dropped out of music, changed gears and then scored a surprise hit with his 1998 solo debut, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. That record broke all the rules, using acoustic guitars, rapping, blues riffs and elements borrowed from Johnny Cash and Neil Young to create a striking hip-hop offshoot that sounded tough and folksy at the same time. The songs were about working people and the small...
...great record. There is the never-released Ronettes' version of Harry Nilsson's "Paradise," which for years existed only as a rumor. And an unknown April Stevens solo cut - she was usually half of a brother-sister act with sibling Nino Tempo - called "Why Can't a Boy and Girl Just Stay In Love." There is an obscure B-side known as "Torpedo Rock," a deliberately obnoxious instrumental, typical of what Spector sometimes placed on flip sides so the impact of the A-side wouldn't be diluted...
...inhabit them. Among the sitters Neel painted during the later years of her life were recognized figures on the art scene, including Andy Warhol. The appearance of large numbers of art-world types reflects the growing recognition Neel received in the '60s, out of which came a 1974 solo exhibition at the Whitney...