Red House Painters - Songs for a Blue Guitar
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Artist: Red House PaintersEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-07-23
Music Label: Fontana Island
Soundtracks:
- Have You Forgotten
- Song For A Blue Guitar
- Make Like Paper
- Priest Alley Song
- Trailways
- I Feel The Rain Fall
- Long Distance Runaround
- All Mixed Up
- Revelation Big Sur
- Silly Love Songs
- Another Song For A Blue Guitar
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Hit: 5 Stars
I came across this album, and RHP, pretty much by accident. For the past 10 years, it remains one of my favorites -- as my life changes, and I get older, I never tire of it. And while I haven't gotten into the group's other albums so much, I can say that this particular work -- Songs for a Blue Guitar -- is about as close to being a perfect album as they come. It evokes a melancholy so pure, so powerful, it shakes your soul to the core. The tracks breathe, not being overproduced with too much instrumentation. If I had to take 5 albums with me to a deserted island, this would have to be one of them (and I own a lot of music!). I was hoping other RHP stuff would do the same for me, but nothing comes close. That's OK. The group should be proud to have produced something so extraordinarily divine -- Brilliant. Nothing like it.
Songs for a Blue Guitar Poster
At first glance, Songs for a Blue Guitar appears much like previous Red House Painters albums, meandering and largely self-indulgent. Eight of the album's 11 songs stray over the five-minute mark (with two more than twice that length), and there are the covers of Yes's "Long Distance Runaround," Ric Ocasek's "All Mixed Up," and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs." Kozelek may have strange taste when it comes to picking out covers ("Silly Love Songs"?), but on this album he's also showing a commitment and sense of deliberate purpose that I've not heard from him before. Even in the album's centerpiece, the more than 12-minute long "Make Like Paper" that contains a guitar solo that supposedly is responsible for 4AD dropping them, there's not a false move. The song unfolds gently, revealing more facets of itself than the spare instrumentation would seem to allow. The guitar's absolutely delicious Neil Young/Robert Quine/Richard Lloyd crunch doesn't hurt, either. That crunch shows up again in "Long Distance Runaround" and "Silly Love Songs," but the rest of the album is built around a gently arresting acoustic guitar that mirrors the soft-voiced Kozelek. --Randy SilverAlternative Rock Music CDs
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