1. Runnin’ With The Dogs
2. Child Heroes
3. East Texas Waltz
4. Song For The Quiet One
5. The Highlander’s Blues
6. I Will Be Standing
7. Texas Sexy Ways
8. Train Wreck
9. Tribute
10. Suite 35
11. In Memory of Zapata
Total time: 38:06
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Blues, Waltzes and Badland Borders
John Platania
Train Wreck
The name may be unfamiliar, but the exemplary guitar work isn’t: Van Morrison stumbled across one of Platania’s gigs during his Woodstock phase, leading to session work on “Moondance,” “His Band and the Street Choir,” “Hard Nose the Highway,” “It’s Too Late to Stop Now” and “No Guru, No Method, No Teacher.”
Another colleague with whom the guitarist worked in the early ’70s is songwriter Chip Taylor (“Wild Thing,” “Angel of the Morning,” “Try (Just a Little Bit Harder),” with whom Platania collaborates on this sophomore solo outing, an “instrumental concept with narratives.”
The narratives are incorporated into segments of some of the songs; other tracks contain sporadic choruses; “Song for the Quiet One” uses snippets of George Harrison interviews; and Lucinda Williams contributes vocals to the end of the closing “In Memory of Zapata,” a song Taylor wrote for Platania that was the catalyst for the CD.
A few of the songs are pure instrumentals, and about half (“East Texas Waltz,” “Song for the Quiet One,” “The Highlander’s Blues,” “Train Wreck,” “Suite 35”) boast outstanding slide playing.
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