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...reticent on other topics, Karin Jentoft’s face spreads in a wide grin as she recounts classic family tales. Carla Jentoft calls her daughter and oldest son, Leif P. Jentoft, “best friends.” The siblings played and recorded together as a classical guitar duo until he left for Olin College, an engineering college in Massachusetts, two years ago. Now his sister has joined him in the Northeast, and the duo has reunited and recently made their Massachusetts debut at a local restaurant. Mother and daughter are also extremely close. In fact, they speak...
...John Phillips [of the Mamas and the Papas] had told me ahead of time, "There's this great blues player and he sets his guitar on fire." I didn't know what to expect. For some people there, his performance was noise and it upset them. In the first three or four minutes, it was noise to me, too. I didn't know what to think of it. I did know that we needed to shoot everything he did. We knew that this was different and that it was something amazing and historic...
...circles shift sufficiently to make the songs interesting. Slow harmonic builds like the one at the end of “Sleep in Splendor” are what redeem this disc from the oblivion of sonorous boredom. And thank goodness that almost midway through the disc, the rolling guitar of “Rise” hits. The song, which boasts a loosely trotting chorus that hints at Spanish guitar and dusty Western dreams, exemplifies Calla’s strengths. The layered vocals and unexpected sounds, like the machine-screechings introducing “Stand Paralyzed?...
...Staggering Genius.” It is the ultimate ADD-song, jumping around from vignette to vignette with no real story. The song starts with the tale of a small-town girl and then, suddenly, a city boy. Journey never mentions them again. This is followed by a rocking guitar solo, and then a new setting: a smoky room. What is going on? Whatever it is, it is fucking awesome. The chorus is equally frenetic: “Streetlights...people...whooaooooaaahhh.” WTF is lead singer Steve Perry talking about?!? Perhaps our generation, with our short attention spans...
...standout track by far is “A Gap Has Appeared.” For once, Field Music is able to make use of The Beatles’ tradition in a way that makes for a thoroughly enjoyable listen. With heavily distorted guitar that could come out of “Mean Mr. Mustard” and strings similar to those from “Eleanor Rigby,” the song presents a new twist that will hopefully be expanded upon in future recordings...