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Artist | Steve Howe
Title | The Steve Howe Album
Genre | Progressive Rock Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 41:17
Label | Wounded Bird Records Store | 2010
Catalog | WOU 9243 Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 235 kbps Size | 72.85 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Pennants 4:33
02. Cactus Boogie 2:03
03. All's A Chord 4:58
04. Diary Of A Man Who Vanished 2:35
05. Look Over Your Shoulder 5:01
06. Meadow Rag 2:41
07. The Continental 2:52
08. Surface Tension 3:31
09. Double Rondo 8:14
10. Concerto In D (Second Movement) 4:49
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Steve Howe was born in London on April 8, 1947. When he began playing
guitar he had quite a few influences, chief among them was Chet Atkins.
When you consider that two of the others were Django Reinhardt and the duo
of Les Paul & Mary Ford, it is really hard to believe that he would become
one of the most influential guitarists in progressive rock. In fact, his
first band was a Chuck Berry-infused band called the Syndicats. He began
playing with that group in 1964. They released several singles before Howe
left the group. His next band was the In Crowd, which eventually became
Tomorrow. Under the newer name they released two singles in 1967 and an
self-titled album the following year. When the group broke up in 1968, Howe
went on to a band called Bodast. Bodast built up quite a following and
recorded an album. However, when their label went bankrupt, the still
unreleased album was scrapped and the band eventually became a casualty
breaking up fairly shortly thereafter. The album would not see release
until 1981. After Bodast, Howe began trying to find his next band.
Auditions with such groups as the Nice and Jethro Tull were unfruitful. As
fate would have it, his next band would come looking for him.
Howe's second solo effort is his most essential recording. "The Steve Howe
Album" contains many of Howe's strongest and most original compositions.
Whereas some of his albums can be associated with the sound of the bands in
which he's played, this release is unique. Howe places himself in a
country/bluegrass setting on most of the compositions, and that is what
makes this project so appealing - he's a rock veteran venturing outside of
his field. And with Graham Preskett playing violin on "The Continental",
Howe turns in what sounds like a real hoedown. The first track, "Pennants",
is a gem for the more rock-oriented fan. The cut opens with the sweet,
resonant, rocking sounds of Howe's Fender Telecaster; he then adds mandolin
and a pervasive twin-neck steel, while drummer Alan White keeps it all
rhythmic.
Half of the tracks are played by Howe alone, most notably "Surface
Tension", his composition for solo Spanish guitar. Other cuts feature
former Yes-mates White, Bill Bruford, and Patrick Moraz (all of whom
participated on Howe's first solo album), and Claire Hamill, who sings
beautifully on "Look Over Your Shoulder". Only one other cut includes
vocals: "All's A Chord", on which Howe's singing is awkward but appealing.
The song, comprised of several movements and musical styles (including
classical), features Howe on eight different stringed instruments,
including bass, pedal steel, sitar, banjo, mandolin, and his trademark
deep-bodied electric-acoustic Gibson ES 175 D.
The final two pieces are set apart from the rest of the recordings. On both
compositions, equipped only with his Gibson Les Paul, Howe is accompanied
by a string ensemble on his interpretation of Vivaldi's Concerto in D,
Second Movement, and by a 59-piece orchestra on "Double Rondo." Andrew
Jackman (who served as orchestrator and conductor on Chris Squire's Fish
Out of Water several years earlier) conducts. "The Steve Howe Album" is a
culmination of everything Howe represents, every genre of music he loves so
dearly, exquisitely played and arranged. The inside cover colorfully
depicts all the stringed instruments Howe used on the recordings, and Roger
Dean's cover painting makes the package complete.
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