ALAN AMES: Confessions of a Waterdog

Alan Ames

Confessions of a Waterdog

© 2000 Alan Ames (634479316050)

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Trip grass blues fusion

tracks

1 Deep Eddy Blues
2 Another Day in Paradise
3 Boogie Shuffle O
4 Bluelight
5 Nancy Jo
6 By Doggies Lum
7 Bighorn Lament
8 For Mozart
9 Neon Canyon Nocturne
10 Summertime
11 Arkansas Boogie
12 Arkansas Fire

notes

With so many lap steel guitarists around today, why should you listen to Alan Ames? Totally unique style of playing and composing, for one. Alan Ames is new blues mixed with jazz and bluegrass themes, and then developed in a classical manner: Trip-grass, blues-fusion.
Secondly, he has an amazing technique. Ames dedicated his life to Lap Steel guitar playing in 1972, as a vehicle of musical expression. He is exploring the various styles he loves: blues, rock, country , jazz, bluegrass, and beyond. Classically trained in cello, flute, and composition, he taught himself lap steel and pedal steel guitars. (Many of his tunes are written out. Contact him at alanamesmusic.com/ for copies or info)
Variety is another reason to listen. Some songs are wild improvisations, others are soft and inspirational.
Some are nasty blues; others are simple country themes. Fast songs, slow songs, different keys, four different steel guitars, vocals, instrumentals, and one song has a recorder trio within it.
Nature is a prime source of inspiration. A number of instrumentals were written in the woods near Pyatt, Arkansas. Sitting on a log in the woods, he wrote “For Mozart”. Round the fire at night, he wrote “Arkansas Fire”. Listen to “Bighorn Lament” It is written about an experience in the Bighorn Mountains of Wyoming. Neon Canyon is in the Escalante River basin in Utah. “Another Day in Paradise” was written about the urban hiking in Boise, Idaho, and how time is an illusion. There is only “now”. Welcome to the present.
His eclectic style may be a product of his influences. His father was a jazz bassist and opera singer wanna-be. He grew up in Texas, Cuba, Iowa, Oklahoma, and California, but lived mostly in the South. This is rootsy music but transcends styles as you listen.

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  • Buy it--buy it now!!
    author: Spud

    Solid music througout--beautiful slide and unique vocals. But dang, man--check out the live show!!

  • WOW!
    author: Marcel Pierarts

    WoW! How far and wide I must look in order to hear some truly fine original stuff. 'Makes me want to give up the piano and git 'er done on some 'o dem strangs! Dang...this cat's good.

  • This music just keeps growing on me
    author: MB Whitaker - The Heard

    Nothing quite like this. Sweet sustains coupled with sensuous bassiness and serious rhythm. I'm listening to this cd more and more, not less and less. When's the next one coming out?

  • Very personal and unique style
    author: Jim Mairs Lean Forward Studios

    This is a very differesnt Texas slide style. Moves toward jazz and swing. Enjoyed the simplicity and rythmic variations. Lots of slide players sound pretty much the same, I found this music to have some very personal licks not in the standard slide repetior.

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