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May 22, 2007

Wham-O

Finally, a blues guitarist with the soul of a trombonist. Putting a junkheap like "Peculiar Hop" as the lead track takes a seriously loose screw, covering Dylan without the lyrics ups the ante ("Rainy Day #12 & 35"), but it's the rare guitar hero who literalizes the mood of the country ("Dig Myself a Hole") after scrawling one of the better lines about Los Angeles ("A thousand dreams trapped in a silent scream..."). A critic's reward for plowing through stacks of CDs.

MC Records
Rick Holmstrom on MySpace, Rick Holmstrom

Posted by triley at May 22, 2007 3:00 AM

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