{"id":4649,"date":"2016-04-19T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=4649"},"modified":"2016-04-29T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T18:02:32","slug":"eric-ambel-lakeside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/eric-ambel-lakeside\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Ambel <br>Lakeside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/eric_ambel-lakeside.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4650 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/eric_ambel-lakeside.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Ambel, Lakeside\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/eric_ambel-lakeside.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/eric_ambel-lakeside-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Eric Ambel\u2019s new record <i>Lakeside<\/i> (Lakeside Lounge Records), his first since 2005\u2019s <i>Knucklehead<\/i>, is named for the beloved roots rock locus in New York he co-owned and, in the cover photo, the lakes of Illinois where he grew up. Produced by Jimbo Mathus, who Eric Ambel worked with on his previous two records, <i>Lakeside<\/i> has Ambel\u2019s lead guitar front and center, but also gets his most nuanced vocals to tape. He\u2019s never made a bad-sounding record, but this is nonetheless the best he\u2019s sounded since 1988\u2019s <i>Roscoe\u2019s Gang<\/i> and features a dedication to the producer of that debut, Lou Whitney.<\/p>\n<p>On the core tracks, played by Mathus and Ambel alone and written by Mathus or co-written as a duo, there\u2019s a sense of raging fun. \u201cHey Mr. DJ\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Make Me Break You Down\u201d are riotous stomps with minimal lyrics caked in fuzz that dissolves and reforms as Ambel pours it all over like paint. Mathus\u2019 soulful drumming is surprising enough to keep the listener\u2019s attention, but never sacrificies that big \u201870s groove.\u201cBuyback Blues,\u201d paints a smoke-stained picture of people trying to find transcendence and, ironically, stave off death on a barstool. Mimicking the slow-motion qualities of happy hour melting away with the fading sunlight giving everything a sweet and transient glow and last call when the false lights go up and the wind blows outside the door, the barbed guitar line and biting solos understand and indict the characters\u2019 self-pity.<\/p>\n<p>The duo is augmented by Ambel\u2019s long-time drummer Phil Cimino on a few tracks. \u201cLet\u2019s Play with Fire\u201d is a sultry slow-jam written by Mathus that works the same soul-country axis as Eddie Hinton and Percy Sledge. It opens and returns to a proposition with a long pause between \u201cyes\u201d and \u201clet\u2019s play with fire.\u201d Mathus is a strong enough songwriter to know how much goes into that silence, and Ambel trusts the space enough to lean into it. The pick-up line goes mythical as Ambel sings, \u201cTownsfolk will tell stories of us marching on their towns,\u201d and his electric guitar arpeggios over Cimino\u2019s shuffled rhythm. \u201cHave Mercy,\u201d co-written by Ambel and longtime collaborator Charlene McPherson (Spanking Charlene), also plays with a soul tempo. With the character trying to face the life he\u2019s made in lines like, \u201cI\u2019ve been running round town trying to get me unwound,\u201d the music echoes that adrift journey. Thick organ floodwaters buffet everything back and forth as Mathus\u2019 steady bass and Cimino\u2019s stomp let Ambel\u2019s fuzz guitar set the raft on fire as it floats.<\/p>\n<p><i>Lakeside<\/i> is an instant injection of memory and sensation for anyone who ever held down a barstool at the Lakeside. For everyone else, it&#8217;s a rocking, soulful record with a love of sunlight, whiskey, and the world that should serve notice to the rest of the Americana field to up their game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Ambel\u2019s new record <i>Lakeside<\/i>, his first since 2005\u2019s <i>Knucklehead<\/i>, is named for the beloved roots rock locus in New York he co-owned and, in the cover<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,1688,1689],"class_list":["post-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-eric-ambel","tag-lakeside-lounge-records"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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