![]() ![]() Does It Feel Better Now (Richard Gael, Patrick Riccio II) - 2:41 The Emperor (Richard Gael, Eric Robertson) - 4:27ġ0. Lighting Frederick's Fire (Richard Gael, Patrick Riccio II) - 4:29Ġ9. Priscilla (Richard Gael, Patrick Riccio II) - 2:21Ġ8. Fool Amid the Traffic (Richard Gael, Patrick Riccio II) - 4:23Ġ7. Exiles(Richard Gael, Patrick Riccio II) - 2:22Ġ6. Power (Richard Gael, Patrick Riccio II) - 3:45Ġ5. ![]() Second City Song (Richard Gael, Patrick Riccio II) - 2:52Ġ4. Rap (Richard Gael, Patrick Riccio II) - 3:17Ġ3. An Eye for An Ear (Richard Gael, Patrick Riccio II) - 3:39Ġ2. It's got blasting fuzz solos, swinging drum breaks, lots of organ whooshing, big time brass riffs here and there.Ġ1. This album is an attempt to go heavy 'n' get cred, with lotsa Hendrix rip-offs and baritone over-the-top-soul vocals (think 'Wind Cries Mary' or the Ides of March 'Vehicle'). His parents moved him to Los Angeles and he was slated to play Elvis' brother in a movie, but the deal fell through. Terry Black was the Fabian of Canada and covered buttloads of Barri Sloan songs in his pop career and had six top 40 hits in Canada as a teenager, as well as recording the cult Black Plague LP in 1966. Everybody's Movin' (In The Sunshine) - 3:21 after twenty years of study I can totally identify with this music", Battaglia emphasizes.Ĥ. "My take on Alec Wilder is completely focused on the melodic aspect. But after working on Wilder's chamber music I wanted to develop a deeper connection with his intriguing musical universe, and I've discovered an immense hidden treasure."Īlmost three years after their last ECM album 'Songways', Battaglia and his partners Salvatore Maiore (bass) and Roberto Dani (drums) develop an almost telepathic rapport on In The Morning, a live recording from April 2014 at Teatro Vittoria in Torino. "I had already known some of his popular songs like 'While We're Young', Blackberry Winter' and 'Moon and Sand' through the intense versions Keith Jarrett has recorded. "I first came into a more direct contact with Alec Wilder's music in the early 90s, when I was performing his Sonata for Oboe and Piano and his Sonata for Horn and Piano", Battaglia remembers. On his sixth album for ECM the Italian pianist and his trio reflect on the work of American composer Alec Wilder (1907 - 1980). Title: In The Morning: Music Of Alec Wilder Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Bramlett - Background Vocals Joel Tepp - Clarinet, Harmonica, Dobro, Slide Guitar Kenny Edwards, Lee Sklar, Buell Neidlinger - Bass Larry Knechtel, Steve Ferguson, Craig Safan - Piano It's well worth it for fans of early '70s singer-songwriters folk or country rock. And on a label unafraid to release records by distinctive and/or non-"pop" singing voices (at this point Asylum had already issued albums by Tom Waits and David Blue, along with Joni Mitchell, Judee Sill and J.D. It's a set of mostly laid-back country rock, led by Taylor's bluesy, lived-in sounding vocals, but also dressed up with the occasional horn chart or psyched-out fiddling by folks such as David LaFlamme. ![]() Happily, Taylor's songs measure up to his backing cast. Backing vocals are by Bonnie Bramlett and Joni Mitchell guitarists include Ry Cooder, Jesse Ed Davis and Andrew Gold bassists Lee Sklar and former Stone Poney Kenny Edwards drums by Jim Keltner and Russ Kunkel pedal steel by Red Rhodes organ by Little Feat's Bill Payne and that's probably only half the familiar names here. The credits on Taylor's album reveal one heck of an all-star cast assembled to help him get his first set of songs recorded. ![]()
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