Word: mandolin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...things himself. Owen doesn't exactly tell you how, but he gives you enough information (in the "Fear of Lumber" chapter) so that the guys in bib overalls at the lumberyard won't sneer. He is especially good on roof slopes and pitches and household electricity. Owen strums his mandolin in praise of electric miter saws ("Yeah, if you can afford one," says a young carpenter who leafed through this book) and electronic levels ("Nah," says my source...
...Night on the Town, Hornsby has taken the familiar musical elements he introduced in his earlier work and produced a richer, more complex and more mature sound. The tinkly piano ballads like "Mandolin Rain" are, for the most part, absent from this album. Instead, Hornsby makes elaborate use of synthesizers and electric guitars to produce driving rockabilly tunes with appropriately cynical lyrics...