As
he prepares for his third solo studio album, the guitarist Johnny A.
- who will perform Saturday at the Redstone Room - wants to
return to where it all started nine years ago.
"I kind of want to get back to a personified version of my first album," he said in a phone interview last week.
I'm not sure what "personified" means in that context, but I'm certain there's one problem with that plan: It would involve returning to a time when Johnny A. was learning a new genre - the instrumental - and his fellow musicians were learning to play with him. That age of innocence will be impossible to recapture, but Johnny A. hopes to rediscover the intimacy of his first solo work.

Throw
Me the Statue's debut album, Moonbeams,
was largely built by one man, and you can hear it in the synthesized
beats, the emphasis on front-loaded keyboards, the occasionally
oddball instrumentation, the aggressive processing, and a complete
disregard for the concept of "enough."
The
Cowboy Junkies first made a name for themselves with The
Trinity Session, recorded
live with a single microphone in a Toronto church in one night for a
couple hundred bucks.







