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Earl Klugh - Crazy for You (1981) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip

Posted By: nettz

Date: 25 May 2010 06:34:25

Earl Klugh - Crazy for You (1981) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip

Earl Klugh's music is as refreshing as a cool breeze on a muggy summer day. This set produced by Klugh and co-produced by Roland Wilson displays Earl's guitar virtuosity and his composing skills. A grand orchestra used on some cuts never overshadows the tight rhythm section comprising various players, with Phil Upchurch and Greg Phillingames being the most prominent. The different musicians give each tune a subtle difference so the LP never gets mundane. Louis Johnson's bass propels "Twinkle" along at a finger-popping pace, with Phillingames adding a sweet electric piano solo that's polished off by some draping synthesizer runs. "Broadway Ramble" features Hubie Crawford's emoting harmonica filling in spaces on a cowboy-ish rhythm. Donald Griffin, Billy Griffin's brother, adds some electric guitar on "Calypso Getaway" and the title track. "The Rainmaker" has elaborate orchestration that meshes with the intense drumming, Gary King's bassing, and Klugh's feathery touch; percussionists Sammy Figueroa and Manola Badbena add flashy fills to Dave Matthews' masterful arrangement. The album closes with the upbeat title track, which is the most direct and most forgettable tune on the disc. This was originally released on Liberty Records in 1981
{ Andrew Hamilton - Allmusic.com }

About Earl Klugh

An acoustic guitarist with a very pretty tone, Earl Klugh does not consider himself a jazz player and thinks of Chet Atkins as being his most important influence. Klugh played on a Yusef Lateef album when he was 15 and gained recognition in 1971 for his contributions to George Benson's White Rabbit record. He played regularly with Benson in 1973, was a member of Return to Forever briefly in 1974, and then in the mid-'70s, began recording as a leader. After a couple well-received solo albums on different Capitol imprints including Blue Note, Klugh hit pay dirt with 1979's One on One, a Grammy-winning collaboration with pianist Bob James. More solo albums followed before the sequel to One on One, Two of a Kind, appeared in 1982. In 1984 he changed labels and released one of his most popular albums, Soda Fountain Shuffle, on Warner Brothers. Klugh made his biggest artistic impression yet in 1989 with the self-explanatory Solo Guitar. Two years later he would return to the "serious jazz" repertoire of Solo Guitar, but this time with bassist Ralphe Armstrong and drummer Gene Dunlap on the acoustic bebop outing The Earl Klugh Trio, Vol. 1. Cool from 1992 found him working with Bob James again and was followed by three more smooth releases for the Warner Brothers family before the jump was made to Windham Hill with 1999's Peculiar Situation. Compilations, live albums, appearances with others, and reissues filled the years leading up to 2005's Naked Guitar, a stripped down, standards-heavy album for the Koch label. The Spice of Life followed in 2008.
{ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide }

Track Listing:

A1. I'm Ready for Your Love
A2. Soft Stuff
A3. Twinkle
A4. Broadway Ramble
B1. Calypso Getaway
B2. The Rainmaker
B3. Balladina
B4. Crazy for You

Equipment Info

Turntable: Roksan Radius III
Tonearm: Audioquest PT-9
Cartridge: Ortofon X5-MC (Moving Coil)
Cable: Van den Hul phono cable
Pre-amplifier: Counterpoint SA 5.1 (vacuum tube Sovtek 6922)
Interconnect: balanced, Belden 1813A cable with Neutrik XLR connectors
Analog to Digital Converter: EMU 1212M (configured for balanced input +4dBu, 0 dB Gain)
Capture software: Goldwave 5.22
Post processing: none.
Ripping policy: I always rip good condition vinyl so that the amount of click/pop will almost none

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