Slingshot Professionals

Kelly Joe Phelps - Slingshot Professionals

Slingshot Professionals
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Artist: Kelly Joe Phelps
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-03-11
Music Label: Rykodisc
Soundtracks:
  1. Jericho
  2. Window Grin
  3. Slingshot Professionals
  4. Not So Far To Go
  5. It's James Now
  6. Waiting For Marty
  7. Knock Louder
  8. Cardboard Box Of Batteries
  9. Circle Wars
  10. Rusting Gate

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Free Music Review: Mesmerising
Hit: 5 Stars

Some people worry that they don't know what Kelly Joe's songs are about, but it doesn't worry me. I kind of know what they're about anyway, once I've listened to them a few hundred times. In any case, it doesn't so much matter what they're meant to be about as what you think they're about. Like an abstract painting full of colour and texture, there's plenty to work with to build up your own picture. Listening to `Cardboard Box of Batteries', I see an old man and his memories, childhood trophies hidden away and that feeling you get looking at them again or just remembering. This is the image I get now, but I may well change my mind about it later on!
Very few songwriters have the courage, or the poetry, to do this. As a listener, you need a bit of both to appreciate these songs, but they are well worth the effort.
In this second outing with a band, KJP is clearly developing a style that's all his own and I'm certain makes up for the absence of his signature slide guitar. It's a seductive sound now, mostly gentle, even for the blues of `Knock Louder', with curious guitar and fiddle highlights creating the atmosphere to back up Kelly Joe's perfect vocals. If there's somebody around who does this sort of thing better, I can't think who they are.

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Though Kelly Joe Phelps initially attracted attention for his virtuosity on slide guitar, he continues to extend his musical dimensions with each release. Once a solo troubadour, here the singer-songwriter features his richest arrangements to date, as producer Lee Townsend enlists stellar support from guitarists Bill Frisell and Steve Dawson, violinist Jesse Zubot, percussionist Scott Amendola (who's worked with Charlie Hunter), accordionist/keyboardist Chris Gestrin, vocalist Petra Haden (daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden), and bassists Andrew Downing and Keith Lowe. The musical atmospherics occasionally invite comparisons with kindred spirits such as Bruce Cockburn (the opening "Jericho"), Mark Knopfler ("Window Grin"), Richard Thompson ("Not So Far to Go"), and even a hint of Tom Waits ("Waiting for Marty"), but in the end Phelps defies categorization. A singer of bluesy grit, he remains a great guitarist, yet he plays with an understatement that enhances the material, rather than overwhelming the listener with hot licks. --Don McLeese

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