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...More recently, Rolling Stone’s February 2007 “Guitar Gods” issue heralded a recognition of the blues in the mainstream press, if not in the mainstream public. John Mayer is described as a “blues preacher”—for the evidential purposes
...appreciate the distinction but let’s just say I find this a completely ridiculous classification—while the actually talented Derek Trucks is cited as a slide guitar luminary. In the fine print, Jack White is described as a “crawling king snake,” praised for his “fusion of prewar blues grit and Stooges napalm,” and (falsely) likened to the legendary Blind Willie McTell...
...stay home and watch movies.” !!! seems more like ??? at times like these. On the whole, !!! is sexy, juvenile, and silly, particularly in “Must be the Moon,” the catchiest song in the album. The bass and the electric rolls, the astro-guitar and galactic bump: all these elements appear elsewhere on the disc, but here they’re wired into a seamless industrial complex of a song. At other times, as in “Heart of Hearts” (which, unfortunately, is the single), the looping bass thump and electric...
...they just had just ridden out a hurricane in a trailer park. Instruments, hair and clothing were strewn everywhere. The set list, culled from their debut, Funeral, was full of songs about death played on accordion and mandolin. Later U2's the Edge would create endless spaces between guitar chords, while Bono drove metaphorical trucks through them, but somehow Arcade Fire's patchwork symphonies roared almost as loudly. To hear the bands together was an education in the various ways rock music can be huge...
...happier tunes. Plenty of candidates for rock's next big voice mistook darkness for depth early on (listened to any '70s Springsteen lately?), and you get the sense Butler will outgrow it, since the band's melodies already have. Black Mirror and Keep the Car Running take flight on guitar, harp, hurdy-gurdy and a chorus of voices that soar past the words, creating a feeling of optimism in songs about pessimism. It's a neat trick, and it leaves you certain that it won't be long before lots of people are singing along...