Newman, Harris - Non-Sequiturs
SKU
SAAH018
This is an album of finger-style Americana guitar music, thoroughly embedded with the Takoma Records 1960's vibe. The pieces are a mixture of solo guitar and guitar with percussion and drums by Bruce Cawdron (drummer of Godspeed! of all things). Harris is also an audio engineer, and perhaps THAT is why this really sounds like a long lost Takoma release, coming out for the first time 35 years later. It's funny hearing all these young sprats picking up on all this long, LONG dormant & long ignored music, after anything hippie related was killed by the punk explosion, and now, 25 years after that breathing some life into it with their obvious sheer love of it (well, usually - sometimes they don't get the real meaning behind the original and ruin it - but they are at least trying!). But the sheer love of that sound is really obvious to me on this album and I just enjoyed the hell out of this record. Conditionally recommended.