The only song that doesn’t sound like a blast from a Rhino Records compilation or some obsessive British crate-digger’s playlist is the. Inevitably, there’s a bedroom ballad with some heavy female breathing and pillow talk (the steamy “After Last Night”).
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The songs span jams like the rollerena anthem “Skate” (released last summer with a very summery roller-skating-themed video) and several slow-burners, including “Leave the Door Open” and the closing “Blast Off,” which includes lyrics as period-specific as the music: “Let’s tiptoe to a magical place / Blast off and kiss the moon tonight / And watch the world go crazy from outer space.” Other priceless one-liners include “In a room full of dimes, you’d be a hundred dollars” and “You smell better than a barbecue” (both from “Skate”). There are even a few cameos from one of the era’s originators, P-Funk bassist and iconic solo artist Bootsy Collins. Paak - have taken the concept to a whole new realm with “An Evening With Silk Sonic,” a wink-laden blast of early ’70s soul that they’ve launched like a contemporary project, complete with a smash debut single, “Leave the Door Open” (performed at the Grammy Awards earlier this year, it went on to top the Billboard Hot 100 in April).Īnyone who knows or loves early 1970s R&B will have a goofy grin on their face throughout this entire album, which plays out like an awesome game of spot-the-reference: You’ll find nods to songs like “Jungle Boogie,” “Fire” and “Love Rollercoaster” groups like the O’Jays, the Chi-Lites, the Sty- listics, the Ohio Players, the Gap Band and Kool & the Gang angelic backing vocals, ludicrously lush strings and horns, baby-I’m-down-on-my-knees testifying wacka-wacka guitars and tinkling glockenspiels. Even without the visual of the oncoming train, the melodic solo builds tension and serves to stitch together two dynamically diverse parts of the song as it emphasises the shifting chords underneath, and provides a segue into the heavier, riffier middle section of the song.Ĭleverly, the track closes with a guitar line that mimics the ominous drone of a police or ambulance siren as the rest of the instrumentation fades to nothingness - a reminder of the events that inspired the composition.The throwback album is a monumentally more difficult thing to pull off: The artist has to follow the above guidelines for a standard album’s length without the conceit - which is hard enough to get away with for the length of a song - growing, well, old.Īll of which is a long-winded way of leading up to the fact that Silk Sonic - aka multiplatinum pop-R&B singer Bruno Mars and rapper Anderson. Said solo, which is performed by Perry, is the star of the track and it’s one of a handful of occasions where he shows-off his talents for slide, as he nimbly swaps from fretted notes to the slide to reach some of the highest notes. Train Kept A Rollin - Get Your Wings (1974)įrom a guitar perspective, the song features plenty of epic ballad ingredients as it evolves from a sparse, pensive intro with jangly acoustic guitar and a droning lead part into a raucous, richly layered masterpiece - complete with whopping power chords and a howling guitar solo. On the studio version, this may well have been a straight Whitford overdub, but live, it gives the two players the opportunity to display once again just how in sync they are with each other.ģ.
The solo reaches its climax with a wailing two part harmony. Whitford also takes a rare moment in the spotlight to deliver a blistering Les Paul solo, while Perry keeps the groove going underneath.
Somehow simultaneously tight and loose, the two guitar parts weave in and out of each other with Whitford taking charge of the 'main' part of the riff low down on the neck, while Perry slots in well-placed funk chords higher up the neck. In fact, he and Perry seem to share an almost telepathic musical connection, and it’s the effortless-sounding, highly syncopated interplay between the two guitars that makes Last Child a truly stand-out track. (Image credit: Kristina Bumphrey/StarPix/REX/Shutterstock)īrad Whitford: "We still have our original members, and we've seen our ups and downs"įar less flamboyant in than Perry, but nonetheless integral to the band’s characteristic sound, Whitford is should never be underestimated or thought of as Aerosmith’s 'other' guitarist.
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