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"Smiles To Go" Review Featured In Slamm Magazine, August 9, 2000
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Jim Earp
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Review of "Smiles To Go"
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By: Ray Crawford
ith the deluge of rock that pours down upon our willing shoulders, it can be easy to forget that the guitar was once a delicate instrument whose sound depended on the fluid interplay of fingers, soundwaves, echo, and wood.
Today, after 50 years of progressively louder music, even the acoustic guitar seems naked without a voice and some lyrical guidance in the melody.
Lest we forget, Jim Earp is here to remind us how beautiful an instrument the six-string actually is. Earp's been raved about in all the right guitar magazines, and earned a hailing as one of the world's great fingerpickers.
Rightfully so--with a base of harmonic strumming making a soft bed for the
sprightly, individual strings he picks for melody, Earp's musical dexterity
is deathly good.
"Smiles To Go" is a quiet album, inspired by New Age tranquility but spirited by it's folky sense of drama. Crescendoing numbers like 'Bareback Rider' can create a speedy spiral of notes, but the rest is a hushed story of
virtuoso guitar talent.
* * * 1/2
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Ray Crawford / Slamm Magazine
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