Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nonsense here. The blues have no tolerance for fancy language or extravagant rhythms. This is music in hard focus and precise form, haiku for voice and guitar. "All my love's in vain," Robert Johnson sang, and whenever that feeling comes around to anyone, it is always to a blues accompaniment...
...newest album, Strong Persuader, a collaboration among several songwriters, has the cool and sexy finesse of prime Eric, even as it does the grand masters proud. "I try to keep my ears open to all kinds of things," Cray says, and that receptivity is now paying off. His guitar playing, as precise as a laser beam, and the tormented romanticism of his songs have helped land a major-label record deal and a heavy dose of attention...
...sense that they relate with lost love, sneakin' around, cheatin' and things like that, but the music isn't traditional blues music. We're stepping out into new territories. Smoking Gun almost sounds like a rock-'n'-roll song." On the album's opening cut, hard-edged guitar and lyrical economy set up another variation on jealousy and revenge: "Maybe you want to end it/ Had your fill of my kind of fun/ But you don't know how to tell me/ And you know I'm not that dumb/I put two and one together,/ And we know that...
...takes place at the drawing board overlooking Union Bay, where he sits and stares, and stares and sits, until the ideas flow. "A strange juxtaposing of things takes place that I don't understand," says Larson. "It just happens." When it is not happening, he stops to strum his guitar; sometimes he works until 3 a.m. to meet a deadline...
Flamenco, which includes the singing and guitar music as well as the dance of Andalusian Gypsies, has a language all its own, so simple that it seems to bypass the brain and speak directly to the heart. In the words of the playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, it "knows death, knows blood, knows love." And that awful but powerful knowledge is what this revue seeks to convey. As its title indicates, it presents the real, raw stuff, without nightclub flourish or Jose Greco's acrobatic flamboyance...