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Track Listings
| 1. Runnin' with the Dogs |
| 2. Child Heroes |
| 3. East Texas Waltz |
| 4. Song for the Quiet One |
| 5. Highlander's Blues |
| 6. I Will Be Standing |
| 7. Texas Sexy Ways |
| 8. Train Wreck |
| 9. Tribute |
| 10. Suite 35 |
| 11. In Memory of Zapata |
Product Description
Rock 'n' Reel
"Platania's playing is never intrusive, never flashy...You can almost feel the heat and dust of the desert."
Album Description
John Platania is one of rock and roots music's consummate
guitar players. But Blues, Waltzes and Badland Borders is not your typical
guitar player's solo album, though it does serve as a tour de force
showcase for his musical skills and distinctive playing. "I don't consider
myself a `guitar slinger' or an instrumentalist," Platania says. And his
stellar resume as a player backs that contention: recording and touring
with such master singer-songwriters as Van Morrison, Don McLean, Randy
Newman, Bonnie Raitt, Judy Collins and Natalie Merchant as well as his
longtime compatriot Chip Taylor, who collaborated with him on the writing
and production of Blues,Waltzes and Badland Borders. Platania calls the
album "an instrumental concept with narratives," and as the music unfolds
for listeners, it plays like a festival of aural short films or a
collection of musical novellas. In short, it's an album of songs on which
Platania's guitar playing is the primary (but hardly sole) lead voice, if
you will.
guitar players. But Blues, Waltzes and Badland Borders is not your typical
guitar player's solo album, though it does serve as a tour de force
showcase for his musical skills and distinctive playing. "I don't consider
myself a `guitar slinger' or an instrumentalist," Platania says. And his
stellar resume as a player backs that contention: recording and touring
with such master singer-songwriters as Van Morrison, Don McLean, Randy
Newman, Bonnie Raitt, Judy Collins and Natalie Merchant as well as his
longtime compatriot Chip Taylor, who collaborated with him on the writing
and production of Blues,Waltzes and Badland Borders. Platania calls the
album "an instrumental concept with narratives," and as the music unfolds
for listeners, it plays like a festival of aural short films or a
collection of musical novellas. In short, it's an album of songs on which
Platania's guitar playing is the primary (but hardly sole) lead voice, if
you will.
To wit, Blues,Waltzes and Badland Borders features vocal contributions from
Grammy-winner Lucinda Williams and acclaimed eclectic Texas rocker
Alejandro Escovedo as well as spoken word segments by the likes of
Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight (Taylor's brother) and Tejano music star
Ruben Ramos. At the core of the album are songs with a Tex-Mex and
borderlands flavor inspired by Platania's time in recent years with Taylor
in Texas (where Taylor has had a following since his first solo albums in
the early 1970s) as well as his Spanish family heritage.
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