Simon Joyner - Songs From A Stolen Guitar"Artists are not athletes. The career of the athlete is, by mortal necessity, compressed and brief. No one expects to see a professional slugger in their sixties out on the diamond, much less see them vying for a pennant. Artists, on the other hand, tend to age like wine think Dylan, Cohen, and Cash with the most rarefied among them capable of swinging for the fences with every at bat. Omaha singer songwriter Simon Joyner, who recently turned fifty,

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and Foetus

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one adorns oneself with a little exoticism under the keyword "Peking opera"

it's follow-up Jazz Cat

the album's lush textures and mercurial arrangements reveal the limitless imagination of Dobson's guitar work (which she's previously shown in playing lead guitar for Beck and The Shins) and fully illuminates the power of her vocals

By striking out on his new path

which also served as the Opera Orchestra

a masterful coming-of-age self-portrait from a young artist discovering himself-and his sound-one song at a time

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