1. Beat the Heat
2. Hickory Wind
3. Sister
4. Oklahoma Stomp
5. From Me to You
6. Sleepy Lagoon
7. Silverbird
8. It Makes No Difference
9. Ain’t No Easy Way
10. Louisiana
11. Love of the Common People
12. Cannonball Rag
13. Fly the Bright Sea
14. Woman
15. Sneak Attack
16. Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
17. Sleepwalk
18. Faded Love (the Flying Burrito Bros.)
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The Shiloh Records Anthology
"Sneaky" Pete Kleinow
Sundazed
The late, great Sneaky only had three solo releases his entire career, two of which were compilations of previously unreleased material (the first of which reprised five tracks from his initial studio album proper). What this new anthology offers is the cream of that crop, with the value-added feature of not having to hunt for the above-mentioned, hard-to-find music.
Spanning a period from circa 1970 to 1992, Sundazed has done a great job of cherry-picking, leaving out the more dated (i.e., disco-sounding) material. Much of it is standard instrumental pedal steel guitar fare, but the original Flying Burrito Brothers steeler had a few things going for him that set him apart from the pack.
Not the least of which was his special effects, putting him above even Rusty Young in terms of making the pedal steel sound like other instruments by using fuzz and wah-wah pedals and just plain technique. Case in point: the emulated horn solos on Sneaky’s emotive cover of Robbie Robertson’s “It Makes No Difference.” The other ace up his sleeve was flat-out speed, reserved mostly for the Burritos but evidenced here on “Oklahoma Stomp” and “Cannonball Rag.”
Elsewhere are a couple of latter-day, cutting-edge originals: “Fly the Bright Sea,” an easygoing shuffle that doesn’t rely on its title to invoke images of cruising over the ocean; and “Sneak Attack,” impressive for its smooth-jazz shadings – sort of the pedal steel equivalent of an “Aja”-era Steely Dan song. Also worth noting is the caliber of guests, including Albert Lee, Skip Battin, Gib Guilbeau, Gene Parsons, Bobby Cochran and Jai Winding.
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