Artist : Pete Drake & His Talking Steel Guitar
Title : The Spook / Oriental Twist
Genre : Instrumental
Year : 2011
Date : 02/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 02
Label : Jazzman 45s
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 04:07 min
Size : 5,4 MB
Tracklist:
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01.the spook 02:17
02.oriental twist 01:50
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04:07 min
Over the past decade Jazzman has
acquired an unparalleled reputation for
reissuing the highest quality rare and
obscure jazz, funk and soul on LP and
45. But every now and then we like to
dip our ears into something totally
else, for instance weÆve done Egyptian
reggae, Pakistani funk, even Indian
Christmas songs. Now the urge to go off
on one has come again, so here we are
with some American Country & Western
music, exotica steel guitar style.
As you might expect, this is no ordinary
Country music made up of songs about
cows, prairies and baked bean suppers.
ThereÆs a twist to it alright, a twist
of the exotic and unexpected. An
Oriental twist even, as the B Side
suggests. This is the music of Pete
Drake, a virtuoso of the talking steel
guitar, an instrumental sideman to many
country hits through the years. His
debut LP from 1962 carried the usual
country fayre, but Drake, visionary that
we was, could see beyond the cows and
the cornfields, and what he saw was a
mythical and exotic land, faraway and
over the sea. DrakeÆs imagination was
enthralled by this revelation, and so he
expressed his dreams in the only way he
knew how û through country music. So
what we have here is two sides of weird
and wonderful music, enthralling and
exotic, captivating and intoxicating,
the music of Pete Drake and his Talking
Steel Guitar!
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