Mark Ford- WEARY AND WIRED- CD- 2007- Provogue Records/Irond Ltd.- No UPC- 150 grn
Solo Album Guitarist Of The Black Crowes And Blue Floyd.
Ex-Black Crowes guitarslinger Marc Fords second solo album literally sounds like a classic. With its conflagrant riffing, big six-string tones, blues bedrock, and tunes that swing from soulful pop ballads like "The Other Side" to grinders like "Dont Come Around," the disc recalls a time in the 60s when groups like the MC5 and Humble Pie were at rocks creative apex. The wah-wah-mad instrumental "The Big Callback" also nods to Hendrix, and "Smoke Signals" has the drama of early Neil Young and Crazy Horse. But ultimately Fords a synthesist, not a copycat, so his unpredictable guitar heroics are as likely to explode into clouds of whinnying feedback as to sprint into marathons of bent, ringing sustained notes and pentatonic scales. Fords lyrics display a street poets sensibility that matches his light-sandpaper voice. And as a song interpreter, he shakes the dust off "That Same Thing" with expressionistic jabs of moaning, raging guitar that make the hoary blues chestnut a raw, unexpected highlight. "Just Take the Money" trumpets contempt for his former bandmates. Thats not the classiest move, but with his own fiery style at his absolute command, Ford neednt worry about burning bridges.
Comes In A Standard Jewel Case With Clear Tray Includes Foldout Inlay.
ИЗГОТОВЛЕНО В РОССИИ.