Another wonderful release by the former Green On Red member. This is solo #12 in the twenty-two years since GOR broke up and his music has been called rock (obviously), lo-fi, country, blues, swamp, trip hop, folk and Americana. Whew! I believe he calls it "sideways." Fans of Tom Petty, Uncle Tupelo, Springsteen, John Hiatt, Cracker, and maybe Wilco need to give this guy a try.
As you can see, San Fran is featured in the video. The record's title was an old SF punk club. The entire album is based there, sort of a weird historical, alternative view as only CP could do. There is about thirty minutes of this Seattle radio performance available but I'll pull one song so you'll get an idea of how he explains all the tracks from the album...
In a perfect world, that's a hit. Damn fine guitarist. God, I'd love to see him live but his tour stop in central FL in two weeks comes at a bad time for the ol' Mad Rocker, AGAIN! Missed him on his last pass through here two years ago so I'll have to play his live record from last year to get me by.
I saw a post on his blog joking about how "Temple Beautiful" was released on the same day as the comeback record for fellow Californians, Van Halen. Gotta love his sense of humor, and I promise you, if you'll give his record a listen or three, you will love it, too...
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