Today's feature suggestion comes from Ernie (No Pride). I remember this getting some praise a few years back. I'll have to investigate...
Review from Amazon:
It has been a long time since I have been this impressed with a piece of work from composition to performance and top drawer production. Lyle previous works of art stand on their own as classics. Harmonic Crusader is the real payoff combining so many approches styles and crisp performance with a dramatically unique, new and extremely satisfying music, song after song. His previous two albums took quite a few listens before I captured the nuances and found the true excellence. This hits you immediately and though most songs I like immediately wear out fast for me, these have not. Every playing they get better as you realize where he is going with the environment. As usual his genius is how he writes and arranges the songs but no doubt his guitar pieces are fantastic. Many parts of his songs remind me of other great music and guitar masters but then I realize he can do it all and isn't emulating anyone. He just has such a wide range of skills he can blend them layer after layer in the same song. This is a must buy album if you are a fan of Lyle's but more so if you are not. This is a suberb piece of work that actually has universal appeal without being mainsteam in any way.
Scott Nokleby
Full song samples can be heard on the player at Lyle's site here:
http://www.lyleworkman.com/
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