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Lawrence Blatt - Out Of The Woodwork
Topic Started: Apr 19 2007, 05:01 PM (1,636 Views)
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Lawrence Blatt - Out Of The Woodwork
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Lawrence Blatt is a Californian acoustic guitarist who has released a CD chock full of relaxing and soothing acoustic finger-style guitar. However, some time spent growing up in Indiana exposed him to country and bluegrass, and it's that as much as anything that helps what threatened to be a dull musical experience with some life and vigour.

The musos amongst you will be delighted to know that Lawrence provides a track by track dissection of the tunes, so you too can now discover that 'It's Not Baroque' has "harmonic overtones of the minor-6th chords". Right. Sounds really nice, though. The album is subtitled "Eclectic Modern Compositions for the Electric Guitar" and has been carefully constructed for listening to in sequence. Which is a very thoughtful way of doing things.

He used to do the whole singer / songwriter thing which also lifts the compositions out of the 'see how clever I am' trap many solo guitarists fall into. There are some really delightful pieces here, with my favourites being the melancholy 'Where Have You Gone?' and the weary 'Here We Go'. It may not be an album I'll put on daily rotation but I know, that when I need it. it'll provide some salve.

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