Strummer521

Just a place where I'll post mini-essays and stuff when the mood strikes me. To start, a review of a single track from the album Rhymes With Orange.

"Nightshade" - Gordon Stone Band

Somewhere between shifty psuedo-klesmer and dry western instrumental stuff that could accompany a car chase across the Arizona desert highway in an 80s or late 70s movie. As with much of GSB's music, it's at it's best when the bassist takes over with a slicing bit of reggaeish stomp that Stone bluesifys over with the steel guitar. It helps that Michael Barnett is the best fiddler I've ever heard. At the age of 15, he could already make it sing and cry and fly like he invented the thing. During solos, he builds tension on the fly so quickly and tightly that it always feels in danger of careening out of the soundscape.

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