{"id":5297,"date":"2018-08-14T18:39:40","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T23:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2022-06-11T20:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T01:44:18","slug":"rolling-stone-august-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevetibbetts.com\/rolling-stone-august-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of–Rolling Stone, August 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
<\/a>In a 1994 Rolling Stone<\/em> review, I described this Wisconsin-born guitarist’s fifth ECM album and seventh overall, The Fall of Us All<\/em><\/a>, as “a dynamic study of Eastern modality and universal spiritualism driven by rock & roll ambition.”<\/p>\r\n While many of his records reflect his travels and collaborations in Bali and Nepal, Life Of<\/em><\/a>, Tibbetts’ first record in eight years, is a series of portraits rooted in home and memory, named after family members and friends (“Life of Emily,” “Life of Joel,” “Life of Carol”) and performed on 12-string acoustic guitar with percussion and cello drones embedded at near-subliminal volume. The effect is a seductive impressionism of fluid melodic figures and rippling arpeggios with a quietly firm, emotional undertow.<\/p>\r\n