In the final installment of the Paper and Pencil trilogy, Guitar In Green features named groupings of songs, short songs or fragments. The featured instrument in this album is the steel string alto guitar that graces the cover, as a part of the vivacious artwork by CW Smith, who serves as the album’s producer as well.
Here, the titles of the groupings indicate a sharper focus for the themes of disappointment and uncertainty. Likewise, intrinsic discords in the guitar chords, as well as in melody, signal the sense of disruption and chaos that pervades the music.
Yet, behind the disconcerting aura lies a surprising confidence, suffusing the music with a monument to overcoming life’s challenges.
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released November 2016
Guitar In Green (Rob Straughn)
released November 2016
five smooth illusions
roaming anywhere
deep inside you
tough face
the hard years
bitter about life
rinky dink life
used cars
never too late
another interest
a life without god
differently
a strange neighborhood
animated
four shallow earthquakes
shook my head no
saturday night special
not together together
cracked
brittle
this leaf
no bombs
noose
some colder night
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