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Roxanne Walsh
My record collector's life started in the 1960s with compilation albums from Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones that I urged my parents to buy for me. Myself, I just could afford singles from my pocket money. If I recall correctly, the first album I bought myself was the Doors debut album, although that was in 1968 already - prior to that I had recorded their songs with a hand held microphone and a cassette recorder from the family radio. I have not stopped listening and collecting since then.
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This is Sweet's guitar album and not only that - he plays everything himself except the drums provided by long time associate Ric Menck.
His main ambition was to play a guitar solo on each tune and so he does. Nevertheless, the album has a full and many layered sound and does not at all sound like the one-man shows so many have released lately. It has a full band sound on all tunes.
And the guitar is kind of his duet partner in the swirling power pop melodies that he is still able to create in abundance.
The opener Blown Away immediately recalls T.Rex's Children of the Revolution before it takes off into a totally different direction, Crazy Horse. These nods to his influences pop up throughout the album but always as a tip to the hat, never to copy. He comes up with tons of memorable melodies and maybe with his best vocal performances in his long career (this is his 15th studio album after all).
The best Crazy Horse album that Neil Young never made.
His main ambition was to play a guitar solo on each tune and so he does. Nevertheless, the album has a full and many layered sound and does not at all sound like the one-man shows so many have released lately. It has a full band sound on all tunes.
And the guitar is kind of his duet partner in the swirling power pop melodies that he is still able to create in abundance.
The opener Blown Away immediately recalls T.Rex's Children of the Revolution before it takes off into a totally different direction, Crazy Horse. These nods to his influences pop up throughout the album but always as a tip to the hat, never to copy. He comes up with tons of memorable melodies and maybe with his best vocal performances in his long career (this is his 15th studio album after all).
The best Crazy Horse album that Neil Young never made.
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