Transverse City
Warren Zevon
Jerry Garcia, Neil Young, Chick Corea, David Gilmour, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, John Patitucci, Richie Hayward
Engineer: Duncan Aldrich
Virgin Records (USA), 2003
1 CD
Catalogue #: 80620
EAN: 0724358062021
UPC: 724358062021
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Personnel: Warren Zevon (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano, keyboards); Waddy Wachtel (acoustic & electric guitars); Jorma Kaukonen (acoustic guitar, background vocals); Mike Campbell (guitar, mandolin); Jerry Garcia, David Gilmour (guitar); David Lindley (lap steel guitar, saz, oud, background vocals); Howie Epstein (banjo, mandolin); Mark Isham (flugelhorn); Chick Corea (piano); Benmont Tench (organ); Bob Glaub, Jack Casady, John Patitucci (bass); Jorge Calderon (bass, background vocals); Richie Hayward (drums); Neil Young, J.D. Souther, Jordan Zevon (background vocals).
Producers: Warren Zevon, Andrew Slater, Duncan Aldritch.
Recorded at Mad Hatter Studios, Los Angeles, California. Includes liner notes by David Wild.
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Warren Zevon
Though he came out of the '70s Southern California scene and was championed by Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon's music is far more dark and sardonic than that background would suggest. The quintessential troubadour-with-an-attitude, he's sung about guns, death, and cattle disease (seriously) with a biting sense of humor and a musicality that's attributable to his early classical training. He's probably the only rocker who studied with Stravinsky. He blazed away through the '80s and '90s, doing some of his best work at the turn of the century, but he was cut down by cancer in 2003, leaving behind the album THE WIND as his farewell.
Jerry Garcia
Though he was chiefly known as the leader of the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia was much more than that. For many, he was the embodiment of the freewheeling artistic spirit of the 1960s. A masterly guitarist and songwriter, and a highly underrated vocalist, Garcia was a true music lover, involving himself in numerous non-Dead projects over the years, including a duo with mandolinist David Grisman, a bluegrass supergroup (Old & In The Way), and jazzy one-offs with the likes of Merl Saunders and Howard Wales. His death in 1995 robbed the world of one of its most distinctive musical voices, but happily, Garcia left a wealth of music behind for fans to treasure.
Neil Young
Like the Band, Neil Young eschewed his Canadian roots to create a sound rooted in American folk and country, which he mixed with visionary, poetic rock in Buffalo Springfield and on his solo albums. He played the crucial fourth wheel role in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, but ultimately proved too individualistic to participate in a democracy. The gritty, electric assault of his work with Crazy Horse is the alter ego of Young's more folk/country-based work, and also proved a key influence on the grunge sound of Seattle (Young even recorded a live album with Pearl Jam as his backing band). Over the years, he's followed his mercurial muse through everything from rockabilly to synth-pop to big-band blues, always remaining uniquely Neil.
Chick Corea
Chick Corea took the piano in new directions following the monumental achievements of McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans. His pioneering electric piano playing with Miles Davis helped shape the sound of fusion in the late '60s. He then turned to acoustic, free-form improv with the group Circle before forming the seminal fusion band Return to Forever. Throughout his lengthy career, Corea has drawn on bebop, Latin, rock, and classical influences to make his mark as both a soloist and a composer.
David Gilmour
Since being brought abroad to cover for the increasingly unreliable Syd Barrett on guitar in the late 1960s, David Gilmour has been the musical foundation of Pink Floyd. Gilmour's work as a solo artist began with his 1978 self-titled debut, a record that didn't deviate much from the basic Floyd template, but came to symbolize the strife that would eventually lead to the band's break-up following 1983's THE FINAL CUT. Gilmour resumed his solo career with 1984's ABOUT FACE and continued to lead a revamped Pink Floyd into the new millennium. His solo career, however, remained on hold for 22 years until 2006's ON AN ISLAND.
