If a person is judged by the company he or she\u00a0keeps, then musically Arlen Roth is just fine,\u00a0as he has surrounded himself with some of the finest slide guitarists on the planet. Rick Vito, Lee Roy Parnell, Greg Martin, David Lindley, Sonny Landreth, and the late Johnny Winter all lend a hand on Roth\u2019s new album release, Slide Guitar Summit.<\/i><\/p>\n
Arlen Roth is a guitar god and Renaissance man. He authored a column for Guitar Player Magazine for over a decade, his Hot Licks Video <\/i>about guitar education has sold in excess of 2.5 million copies, his online lessions have over one million followers, and he\u00a0has played with the likes of Simon & Garfunkel, John Prine, Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Dusty Springfield, The Bee Gees, Ry Cooder, and dozens of others.<\/p>\n
His new album covers a lot of styles and types of music due to the diverse talents of his guests. Lee Roy Parnell provides the slide duet and vocal for\u00a0the cover of Robert Johnson\u2019s blues classic \u201cDust My Broom\u201d and returns for a funky rendition of Lowell George\u2019s \u201cDixie Chicken.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are several stripped-down performances that are both creative and entertaining. Sonny Landreth and Roth rock out with just an upright bass in support on \u201cSonny Skies.\u201d The traditional \u201cPoor Boy Blues\u201d is simpler still as it is just Jimmy Vivino, Roth, and their guitars. \u201cHer Mind Is Gone\u201d find Roth and David Lindley trading licks on\u00a0only their lap steel guitars.<\/p>\n
Greg Martins brings a country element to the album on the old Jimmie Rodgers tune \u201cPeach Pickin\u2019 Time In George\u201d and the gospel song \u201cAmazing Grace.<\/p>\n
The most poignant track is his duet with Johnny Winter on \u201cRocket 88.\u201d Roth saw Winter play at Woodstock at the age of 16 and now trades licks in what may have been the last studio\u00a0recording of Winter\u2019s career.<\/p>\n
Slide Guitar Summit <\/i>is an album that lives up to its billing as Roth has the experience and talent to meld his style to that of some excellent guitar players. It is a slide guitarist\u2019s delight and easily lives up to its title. This is one of the better releases of early 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":32348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[9622],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-44101","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-arlen-roth","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44101"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}