Show t It u IT Tt K N C C. C V. I R F E. E I j 3 T f 4 1 s. 1 I j i u c S 1 iii I J 1 M 8 S C l J. J by F. F Lee Wilbur And then there three were was Genesis' Genesis last effort but what of the two artists who left this band STEVE HACKETT the man who held down the position of 12 string WRITER WRITER AND LEAD so well in Genesis now has his second solo album entitled PLEASE DONT DON'T TOUCH He ha has recruited as some of the guest artists include RICHIE HAVENS aA VENS STEVE WALSH AND PHIL EHART of KANSAS CHESTER THOMPSON and some very fine female vocals by RANDY CRAWFORD The album begins with a number inspired by the childrens story by C. C S. S Lewis The lion the witch and the wardrobe called NARNIA With HACKETT and WALSH trading vocals it makes one almost think KANSAS has has' gone goneI i to doing serious classical type compositions CARRY ON UP THE VICARAGE is a tricky well well- written tribute to AGATHA CHRISTIE with the most interesting vocals of a long time by STEVE HACKETT This album wends its it's way through 7 other numbers before ending with a composition called ICARUS ASCENDING with accomplished vocals by RICHIE HAVENS Although the similarity to GENESIS is quite evident U this s is an n original work and should be digested by all And of course they are RID RIDIN IN THE STORM OUT only U this s time with a collection of tunes titled You Can tune a Piano t but you cant can't Tuna Fish ish REO 9 has just released this work ji work and f have ve pret pretty tf themselves a place on the airwaves and probably gold West Coast radio is already a good number of these selection and the review are quite good Who knows maybe by July or August Utah radio may be far enough along to present them to you but if you are not willing to wait for the ca catch up then do pick up on these two very different yet very fine new releases |