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About the CD (page 3 of 3) Closing the album is a beautiful electric guitar instrumental of the title song, this time called Sound of the Blues Reprise. Reprise opens with finger-picking of emotionally evocative ninth and minor-seventh note-chords - - and they progress toward a vibrato-laden, wonderful turn-around which is reminiscent of a mandolin figure. Reprise is approached in a way that is consistent with the guitar-playing throughout the album - - drawing upon just the right amount of time and space to set the stage. As the finger-picking of Reprise fades out, the flat-pick is poised and strikes the first ringing note of an equally powerful second-half of the instrumental. The first passage here plays off of the vocal melody, and then transitions into a passage of cascading note-chords that suggest the sound of a steel guitar. The melodic finale of Reprise returns closer to the vocal melody, but it does so by way of alternate-picking - - the playing is similar to the cross-picking of a mandolin, while adding the ringing overtones and singing sustain of the electric guitar. Using emotive variations in chord voicing, the finale brings Reprise to a touching conclusion that captures the expressive theme of the entire album. Return to page 1 or page 2. |
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