(2021) Cameron Knowler - Places of Consequence


Review:
A son of the wild west (Texas and Arizona) now living in California, Cameron Knowler plays guitar. Or, more accurately, Cameron Knowles paint pictures with guitars. Pictures of huge skies, epic stories and the good and the bad of mankind. This album contains fourteen tracks of ‘paella western’ instrumentals (a phrase this writer has just made up to convey a Spanish meets Wild West style of guitar playing). Mostly just one or two guitars shadowing each other, often quite short one or two minute tracks. There are shades of Chet Atkins and Ry Cooder within the licks; often sparsity and silence play an important role. Where to jump in? ‘Cindy Cindy’ is simply beautiful – Chet meets Mother Maybelle somewhere around a cowboy campfire. ‘Second Train to Almogordo’ is so, so sparse. Any listener would have to stop whatever they were doing (typing this review for instance) and just listen, to appreciate how a piece of music can be so open and bare. Opener ‘I’m an old Cowhand’ blends the Spanish and Western, plus a little Western Swing, so expertly and unpredictably – you can’t second guess where Knowler’s going to go next with the arrangement. Very clever indeed. ‘Sonora Road’ has clackety kitchen utensils as percussion. It sounds like a bluegrass clog dance on a wooden front porch. — AmericanaUK





Track Listing:
1.I'm An Old Cowhand 02:19
2.Sonora Road 02:39
3.Supertone Biome 01:34
4.Done Gone 02:58
5.Don Bishop 02:43
6.Atelier De Stein 00:52
7.Cindy Cindy 02:00
8.Cat Spring 06:23
9.Motoring Addiction 01:36
10.Puerto Suelo 03:47
11.Second Train To Almogordo 01:38
12.Lone Prairie 02:52
13.Lena's Spanish Fandango 02:13
14.Kuyina 01:45


Media Report:
Genre: acoustic, folk
Country: USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits