Banker and a Liar

Aside from Mick Collins, another beautiful bastard Devil-Wizard of the genre is Greg - Oblivians - Cartwright. Legendary with the Oblivians, immense with the Compulsive Gamblers, and superb with this other magnificent creation of his.

With Too Much Guitar, you think, "Okay, he made the masterpiece album with his Reigning Sound," and instead, this damned bastard does what?! He lets a half-decade pass and throws you a wonderful album, a "moody & melancholic" - his words - side of the Oblivians sound. You can't pin it down... it takes you back to adolescence with sounds full of sixties moods, R&B, soul, but also steeped in that traditional American sound...
And with that bastard voice, winking... in spite of the 17 octaves of the "great singer" of which I couldn't care less… that animates this splendid bastard...

AlbumONE... if you haven't figured it out yet... But the beauty is that this guy who makes an album like this, putting together Beatles, Van Morrison, Arthur Lee, Graham Parker, and even Bob Dylan... after having been one of the most crazy iconoclasts of "Classic" Rock... you say he has no class, talent, nobility?! Naaaaaaaaaaa... and even WAITS... come on now…