as well asmuddy_rogerDecember 21 2024, 03:03:00 UTC
1974 - Luie Luie
[review] Once (self-billed) as The Greatest Single Act in the World - and who are we to argue? - Luie Luie began life as Californian Luis Johnston. He was a painter (that's his own work on the cover) and musician, who during the 70s 80s and 90s played his own blend of Mariachi-infused lounge-bar easy-listening in nightclubs and bars across America. His catalogue runs to just a handful of 45s and this solitary self-funded LP that sold no more than 25 copies when it was released in 1974. Luie's unique gift was both a wonderful blessing and a terrible curse. A blessing in that he was able to so completely realise his own vision, but a curse in the sense that his vision is often so astonishingly cock-eyed. Multi-tracking is undoubtedly a wonderful invention, but Luie generally sounds like he's in competition, rather than in tune with himself. But none of those criticisms should give you the impression that Touchy isn't a great record, because it surely is. You just have to give in to it to really enjoy it. Luie is a tremendously brave trumpeter, >>
[review]
Once (self-billed) as The Greatest Single Act in the World - and who are we to argue? - Luie Luie began life as Californian Luis Johnston. He was a painter (that's his own work on the cover) and musician, who during the 70s 80s and 90s played his own blend of Mariachi-infused lounge-bar easy-listening in nightclubs and bars across America. His catalogue runs to just a handful of 45s and this solitary self-funded LP that sold no more than 25 copies when it was released in 1974. Luie's unique gift was both a wonderful blessing and a terrible curse. A blessing in that he was able to so completely realise his own vision, but a curse in the sense that his vision is often so astonishingly cock-eyed. Multi-tracking is undoubtedly a wonderful invention, but Luie generally sounds like he's in competition, rather than in tune with himself. But none of those criticisms should give you the impression that Touchy isn't a great record, because it surely is. You just have to give in to it to really enjoy it. Luie is a tremendously brave trumpeter, >>
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Tag: 474 albums of 1974
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