"Three Miles Into New Mexico" is an exception: a minor-key, mid-tempo country-western tune with a solid chorus, it really gets the toes tapping. But "Long Way Home," despite fine country-style acoustic guitar playing, has a vocal that's too gently sing-songy for my taste. I do grow to like the song more as it extends and becomes hypnotic a la Brian Eno ambient rock, but can't say the same for "Forever" and "Home" which are just plain too New-Agey for my taste.
The CD closes with the chant-like "On This Morning," a solstice ritual with Pink Floyd electric guitar and what Maryott calls "chanteling": "harmonizing vocally within acoustically charged spaces to 'channel the chant.'" I call it pretty, like a ghost in the finery of another age.
In all, despite losing me in places, this CD is the work of accomplished musicians and has much to recommend it.
Available at CD Baby here.
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NEWS AND FOLLOW-UPS: Lee Rocker's new CD has started out as the #1 Most Added on the Americana Music Chart, beating out Shawn Mullins and Roseanne Cash... For you New Yorkers and Brooklynites, my Soul of the Blues series continues tonight at Night and Day with a stellar lineup of local and regional favorites... And finally, speaking of Brooklyn: thanks to the ravages of time and an errant broom, Planty is dead. Poor Planty - he was indeed a strange plant in a strange land.
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