Elliott Sharp - Sky Road Songs

With Sky Road Songs, Elliott Sharp has placed the emphasis on the songs - concise, focused, emotional and memorable, both drawing on the blues tradition and looking towards a futuristic sound.

Sky Road Songs producer Joe Mardin contributes great ears and a stalwart sense of structure to the project. The powerful vocals of Eric Mingus unveil incredible range and melodic subtlety. Standouts from him include Sharp's Sky Road Song, a melancholy jet-lag meditation, and This House Is For Sale, with howling vocals evoking the blues masters over sweet-and-salty guitar obbligato. Recently departed legendary guitarist Hubert Sumlin features on this track, in what was ultimately his final recording session. Tracie Morris simmers and wails on Endless Path, a concrete evocation of the Sky Road, and on the Southern Gothic/swampedelic I Blame You. Joe Mardin contributes the sardonic Banking Blues, a scathing but humorous indictment of current American economics, on which he sings lead.