“Wichita Lineman” finds the Dick Slessig Combo harnessing the song’s original melodic components and locking in. Mark Lightcap’s guitar drifts and melts away, evoking Isaac Hayes’ super-spaced soul or Duane Eddy conjuring up celestial waves crashing on a cosmic beach; the rhythm section of Steve Goodfriend and Carl Bronson mind meld; occasionally an organ flutters. The song becomes a mantra.
Category: Acetone
Acetone :: Sam Sweet’s Hadley Lee Lightcap
The music of Acetone seems to exist outside conventional methods of timekeeping. Off to the side. Suspended and slightly warped. Likewise, the story told about the band in Sam Sweet’s […]