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Summary: Fun, up tempo music!
Comment: This CD is just plain fun to listen to. The music is up tempo and features a reggae type beat. However, it is not repetitive as are song CDs in that genre. David Lindley is a very talented musician and this is some of his best work.
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Summary: Fun music
Comment: Lindley's version of "Mercury Blues" ROCKS! It left me wanting more. The musicianship is excellent. The songs choices are fun. What's not to like? I highly recommend this album!
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Summary: A genre onto itself
Comment: Here I sit in 2008 writing a review of record created during the early 80s, nearly 30 years ago. This one still sounds fresh and timeless, also startlingly unique. Lindley and company combined a bunch of ideas that were well-established (roots rock and reggae essentially) but what came out of the blender was distinctive and can't really be mistaken for anything else. It's like The Police with the song tempos slowed down, combined with the early Beatles and John Lee Hooker. Except the lyrics are often pretty weird (see "Quarter Of A Man" for example). As far as I know nobody else has ever done anything like it - with the exception of some of the material on Cracker's recording with members of Leftover Salmon, entitled "O Cracker, Where Art Thou?" (also a great obscure find).
I can't help but wish that more artists these days would take a risk and at least attempt to create a record this unique. There's a lot of "indie" artists out there - a term derived from the word "independent" - but that moniker tends to indicate "independent record label" more often than "independent thinker" and it's a shame. I'd recommend this timeless disc to musicians thinking about expending their horizons and music fans seeking something real and out of the ordinary.
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Summary: Kinda disappointed so far.
Comment: I've listened to this album for the first 2-3 times just recently. I got to Lindley via his work with Warren Zevon & Jackson Browne. I already have two of his more recent discs, "Live in Tokyo" and "Twango Bango Deluxe". Both are independently produced on his private label and feature Lindley's masterful fretwork and earnest vocals accompanied only by a single percussionist. I find this stripped down setting much more interesting and a better showcase for Lindley's talents than the more highly produced ensemble effort on El Rayo X. The one exception would be his blistering slide work on "Mercury Blues" (on El Rayo X), for which maximum volume and repeat mode are cumpulsory. Maybe I need to give the rest of El Rayo X some time to sink in, but right now I definitely recommend the others.
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Summary: Great stuff
Comment: David Lindley was the music on Jackson Browne's best albums. Check out Mr. Dave's three studio releases first. If you are intrigued, go to his website and purchase his live album, El-Rayo-X. If there was any justice in this world, it would have been bigger than "Frampton Comes Alive." After that, you will be ready for his other private label releases available on the website.
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