Julian Lage – Modern Lore (LP Vinyl)
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Julian Lage arrived at this session already carrying serious credentials, having performed with Gary Burton as a teenager and earned a reputation as one of the most technically gifted guitarists of his generation. But what separates him from the prodigy-turned-technician trap is his genuine rootedness in American vernacular music, the kind that lives in roadhouses and front porches as much as concert halls. Modern Lore captures that balance with a trio that swings hard without ever showing off.
Modern Lore finds Julian Lage playfully flipping the script he followed on his acclaimed 2016 Mack Avenue debut, Arclight. That album - produced, like Modern Lore, by Lage's friend and collaborator, the singer-songwriter Jesse Harris - was his first trio set on electric guitar and found Lage inspired by the sounds and the attitude of the freewheeling, pre-bebop jazz era, when, as he puts it, "country music and jazz and swing were in this weird wild-west period." This time he incorporates the sensibility, if not the outright sound, of early rock and roll, a similarly hybrid form driven by rhythm, personality and a passion for the electric guitar.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 673203113114
Label: Mack Avenue Records
Release Date: 2.2.18
Format: LP Vinyl