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Leicester Bangs Review: August 5, 2012
Mick McMains - Guitar Love (Welland International
Corp): Though born in Washington DC, Mick
McMains spent his early years in Saigon, Vienna and
Paris. In the latter capital he took piano lessons
from a Russian-born protégé of Nadia Boulanger (if
you haven't heard of her, she's well worth a Wiki)
and when his family moved back to Southern
California, he began to play guitar. A talented singer
and musician, apart from a career that's seen the
release of a series of solo recordings - "Guitar Love"
is his sixth CD - he's toured Europe as bassist with
punk band The Generators, spent two years as
vocalist for Earl Slick's band and is involved with art
ensemble DJ Monkey, co-producing two of their
albums.
So, usually a tricky artist to pin down, but on "Guitar
Love" he concentrates on his own songs, penning 12
of the 13 tracks and focusing on a style that might
best be described as Americana. Although it's not
quite as simple as that. Elements of classic rock,
blues-rock and AOR are utilized and right at the
death a traditional Chinese song makes an
appearance. To be honest it's not McMains' finest
moment on the album, but there are plenty of
highlights, from the opening title track, truly a paean
to "six strings on a block of wood", to the Wilburys-
esque "Endless Sky". Fans of literate, grown-up pop
songs could do a lot worse.