Bill Gable - "No Straight Lines"

Описание: This song was initially inspired by the Beatles’ “Revolver” album. I know that to be a fact, but I can’t recall quite how...though I can hear a little bit of "Taxman" in there, I suppose. I began writing the song years ago so I've forgotten. I was working on it while I was at the Fes Festival of Sacred Music in 2004, it goes that far back. Like on “I Threw Your Heart,” the song includes a tricky rhythmic passage, where I am playing guitar in such a loose manner it’s hard to locate the downbeat, in this particular case partly to convey the lyric. Time will tell if it’s worth doing this stuff again, especially when it throws the players!

I love Chris Bleth’s zurna solo on this, as I suspect many people will. I used zurna years ago on ‘”Center Of My Universe” off of my THIS PERFECT DAY album, and I decided pretty early on this was the sound I wanted again for this song. I spent a couple of years poking around LA trying to find the impossible – a North African zurna player capable of playing over changes like this. After various failed attempts, Rich Breen recommended I try Chris, and right around the same time Lyle Mays advised me that when he runs into a wall with ethnic players he looks for a great jazz improviser and almost always winds up way better off...some very good advice that came at the perfect time. So I called Chris and in this case it was the perfect choice! As it turned out, when Chris showed up for the session he also actually had a keyed zurna he had bought on tour in Spain a few years earlier, which made it as flexible as a soprano sax.

Bill Gable – Vocals, guitar, fretless guitar, guitarra, piano, percussion
Steve Rodby – Acoustic bass
Chris Bleth – Zurna solo
Judd Miller – Trumpet, zurna
Maggie Parkins – Cello
Larry Goldings – Piano
Greg Ellis – Shakers, kharkharba, frame drum, chan chan

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