The Master Of The Telecaster teams up with the ebullient Ace Of The 88s to make a brand new album that they are about to tour. Their live sets roll from excitement to tenderness to caustic humour and back, peppered with virtuoso instrumental solos.
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Gimme Danger – The Story Of The Stooges Film Soundtrack (Rhino / Warners) Ah The Stooges! Back In...
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Now if there is one label you could NEVER put on guitarist and singer Eric Gales, it is ‘middle of the road’…other musicians I meet speak of Gales in hushed tones, as ‘out there’, ‘inspired’ and ‘a mighty figure’.
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If you handed a bunch of chefs the same bag of ingredients and asked them to produce a dish, they would likely all come back with something different, something of their own…and if you were to hand Lol Goodman and crew a set of instruments and a free hand THIS is what you’d get.
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Is that a smidgeon of contempt in that album title ? Why so ?..though I do recall an interesting indie outfit called The Strange Death Of Liberal England… some background info, then. The late Sir George Martin described our man as “Too great a talent to ignore” and dear Bob Harris calls Clews’ music “Landscape Folk”.
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