> Oh- and to change topic a little bit, I just listened to AMp Fiddler album > for the first time this morning (yeah- I've been talking without hearing- > flame away), but my assumptions were absolutely correct about the record. > Its basically smooth jazz. OK- maybe that's harsh, but its absolutely 100% > indebted to 70's funk and soul music. There's not even an attempt to turn > these songs out into something new. Not to say I dont like it. It will > definately hold a certain place in my catalog (dinner party music), but > there is absolutely nothing that's going to make me go back and want to > hear it again in order to explore things i might have missed (the matt > dear album had me going back for weeks on end as it finally grew and > bloosomed in my brain).
My thoughts exactly...it's good stuff for sure, but not something that's got me all excited like some folks seem to be. Each to their own I guess....