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Steve Goldberger and the Fringe Locals, The Niagara-on-the-Lake Rhythm ProjectOther Featured Albums
Patti Smith, EasterRiffs
Lyle's trialsWe continue to play selections from all our featured Spring albums to date in addition to this week's - see Spring 2002 Featured Albums for complete list with commentary
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Steve Goldberger and the Fringe Locals, The Niagara-on-the-Lake Rhythm Project (Shed, Feb 2002). Back in the 70s, Steve Goldberger was a founding member of Black Creek, a Toronto-area hybrid newgrass/roots rock band that recorded for RCA. In the post-Black Creek years, he had pretty much stopped recording and writing, even as he stayed involved in music as a bassist for a large variety of acts. By 1988, however, he was recovering from open heart surgery and reassessing his life and career. Steve subsequently decided he needed to get back to what he loved best - writing and recording original music. He built his own recording studio, but it wasn't until 2000 that his first independent CD as a performing songwriter - Come from the Heart - was released.
The Niagara-on-the-Lake Rhythm Project is the first of what will be two releases for Goldberger this year; in this case, what started as "an all acoustic world music kind of thing" with Steve and friends has resulted in a collection of instrumental hybrids mixing world, jazz, blue/newgrass, rock, country and blues. What I like most about the record is its spirit of fun, experimentation and cameraderie that runs from beginning to end; instruments range from piano-bass-guitar to oddities like the digeridoo, claves, seashells, whirlies, vinyl siding, tail pipe, flower pots, a salad bowl, and yes - a kitchen sink.
Visit Steve's website (click on the title or cover above) for more information and/or to purchase this album.
other featured albums
Patti Smith, Easter (Original release 1978; remastered reissue 1996). We started playing this Sunday in what is sure to be an Easter tradition for us - and decided at the last minute to continue featuring to some extent through the week. This is arguably Smith's best album all around, blending crisp, kick-ass rock and roll (produced by Jimmy Iovine) with Patti's poetry, theatrics, and sensuality. The Springsteen-penned "Because the Night" was her only real "hit" ever, but the rest of the album is what's brilliant, from the menage-a-trois of "We Three" to the desperate cry of release of "Privilege" to the chilling death/resurrection theme of the title track.
riffs
Get well fast, Lyle - and if you want to keep riding the motorcycles ya love so much, I'd refrain in the future from teasing big creatures with sharp horns and rings in their noses huffing smoke and fire. Hell, if you really want to make like Manolete, at least leave that red Calvin Klein outfit home next time.Notes by Michael Westerfield unless otherwise indicated.
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