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...David Bromberg is one such studio player who appeared for years only in a back corner of someone else's album, hunched over one of a half-dozen musical instruments. In Reckless Abandon, his fourth or fifth solo album (depending on whether you toss any live albums into the count), he displays the fine musicianship typical of his studio work, coupled with refreshing disregard for the boundaries separating different musical genres...
...Bromberg's early solo and studio work fell into a folk a and bluegrass style. His successful early songs, like "Hold-up," are a combination of fine guitar technique, a distinctive, highly expressive voice that hesitates ever-so-slightly before almost every phrase, and great lyrics...
...Bromberg would have been a musical find if excellent technique and humor were all he had to offer. But by 1974, when he recorded Wanted: Dead or Alive, the Bronx folkie had expanded his musical play-pen to include the Chicago blues sound, traditional Irish ditties, and just about anything else that falls into the categories of has or does not have a discernable beat. In Reckless Abandon (the title derives from the B. Kliban cartoons of the same name, which appear on the album cover), Bromberg continues his eclectic and humorous exploration of music, and does so successfully...
...Want To Go Home," the opening cut, is a hard-driving, almost mainstream rock piece, that Bromberg blasts out in a ballsy, bluesy voice. One of the few songs on the album he wrote, indeed, one of the only contemporary songs, "I Want To Go Home" is a humorous study in seventies paranoia...
...DIFFERENT VEIN, Bromberg creates a hybrid of dixie-land and rock around Gus Cannon's "Stealin'," producing a sound interesting enough to justify its appearence as yet another version of that frequently recorded rag. On this cut, as throughout the album, Bromberg holds himself back, never displaying the sheer virtuousity he has shown himself to be capable of. At the start of the song, for example, he offers only a few bars of tasty rag picking before drowning the guitar out in a melange of horns, mandolin, bass and drums. Although the absence of flash is somewhat disappointing, Bromberg...