The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93951   Message #1832411
Posted By: GUEST,chazkratz
12-Sep-06 - 03:05 AM
Thread Name: Art Thieme in Boston Globe (8/18/06)
Subject: RE: Art Thieme in Boston Globe (8/18/06)
Oops. I hit the send button before responding. Art, in that song you play a very different style of guitar than I have ever heard from you--for one thing, you play this as a guitar tune on which you add your vocals almost as an afterthought, where in everything else, you play beautiful but simple backups to your vocals, the song being the important thing. Specifically I'm referring to the many notes that start on one pitch then drop smoothly to a lower pitch, as if either pre-choked to the higher note and allow to bend smoothly down to the lower. None of the chokes or slides go up, all only down. It sounds much like banjo detuners, or like very precise bottleneck playing with no other strings touched than the one which drops in tone. Anyway, it is quite beautiful and quite different from any other guitar playing I've heard from you...and I don't think I've ever heard the same kind of drop slide from anyone else.

Charles