Review by Mark Deming
After the Stray Cats broke up, Brian Setzer took a long walk from his rockabilly past with his first solo album, 1986's The Knife Feels Like Justice, but while it was a fine LP and a modest success, later that year the Stray Cats reunited for the first of many times to record Rock Therapy, and by the time Setzer made his way back to the studio on his own, he'd seemingly grown tired of his new heartland rock gestures and dove back into the retro style that had made his name. While 1988's Live Nude Guitars leans toward rockabilly and uptempo roots rock, the production (mostly by Setzer and Larson Paine, though Dave Stewart and Chris Thomas work on a few tracks) is a lot slicker than anything the Stray Cats ever put to wax, and the big, glossy sound of "Rockability," "Red Lightning Blues," and "She Thinks I'm Trash" tends to work against the songs, and the synthesizer line and drum machine on "When the Sky Comes Tumblin' Down" are simply cringe-inducing. Setzer does offer a few flashes of the more contemplative direction of The Knife Feels Like Justice on "Every Tear That Falls" and "Love Is Repaid by Love Alone," but they don't work especially well in this context, and the widescreen ballad "The Rain Washed Everything Away" is an odd closer for the album. Setzer demonstrates some typically fine guitar work on Live Nude Guitars, but it's a creative hodgepodge that desperately needs a cleaner focus, and suggests he was in need of a new creative direction; the next time Setzer was heard from as a solo artist, he was fronting his big band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra.
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Reseña de Mark Deming
Tras la separación de los Stray Cats, Brian Setzer dio un gran salto desde su pasado rockabilly con su primer álbum en solitario, The Knife Feels Like Justice, de 1986, pero, aunque fue un buen LP y tuvo un éxito moderado, más tarde ese mismo año los Stray Cats se reunieron por primera vez de muchas para grabar Rock Therapy, y cuando Setzer volvió al estudio por su cuenta, parecía haberse cansado de sus nuevos gestos de rock heartland y volvió al estilo retro que le había dado fama. Aunque Live Nude Guitars, de 1988, se inclina hacia el rockabilly y el roots rock uptempo, la producción (en su mayor parte a cargo de Setzer y Larson Paine, aunque Dave Stewart y Chris Thomas colaboran en algunas canciones) es mucho más pulida que cualquier cosa que los Stray Cats hayan grabado jamás, y el sonido grandioso y brillante de «Rockability», «Red Lightning Blues» y «She Thinks I'm Trash» tiende a ir en contra de las canciones, y la línea de sintetizador y la caja de ritmos de «When the Sky Comes Tumblin' Down» son simplemente vergonzosas. Setzer ofrece algunos destellos de la dirección más contemplativa de The Knife Feels Like Justice en «Every Tear That Falls» y «Love Is Repaid by Love Alone», pero no funcionan especialmente bien en este contexto, y la balada panorámica «The Rain Washed Everything Away» es un cierre extraño para el álbum. Setzer demuestra su habitual maestría con la guitarra en Live Nude Guitars, pero se trata de una mezcolanza creativa que necesita desesperadamente un enfoque más claro y que sugiere que necesitaba una nueva dirección creativa; la siguiente vez que se supo de Setzer como artista en solitario, estaba al frente de su gran banda, la Brian Setzer Orchestra.
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1 - Red Lightning Blues
2 - Rockability
3 - Rebelene
4 - Nervous Breakdown
5 - Every Tear That Falls
6 - Temper Sure Is Risin' - Harmonica – Bruce Willis
7 - When The Sky Comes Tumblin' Down
8 - She Thinks I'm Trash
9 - Love Is Repaid By Love Alone
10 - Rosie In The Middle
11 - So Young, So Bad, So What
12 - The Rain Washed Everything Away
Credits:
Accordion – Frank Marino (6) (tracks: B4)
Art Direction – Henry Marquez
Backing Vocals – Marcy Levy (tracks: B1, B6), Wendy Fraser (tracks: B1, B6)
Bass – Tommy Byrnes (tracks: A1, A3 to A6, B2, B3, B5)
Design – Michael Diehl
Drums – Denny Fongheiser (tracks: A5, A6, B3, B4), Jerry Angel (tracks: A1, A3, A4, B2, B5), Olle Romo (tracks: A2, B1, B6)
Engineer – Jon Bevin* (tracks: A2), Olle Romo (tracks: B1, B6), Peter Doell (tracks: A1, A3, A4, A6, B2, B4, B5), Steve Churchyard (tracks: A5, B3)
Engineer [Assistant] – Brian Harrison (tracks: B1, B6)
Engineer [Mixing] – Manu Guiot (tracks: B1, B6)
Guitar, Vocals – Brian Setzer
Harmonica – Bruce Willis (tracks: A6)
Lacquer Cut By – Wally*
Management – Bennett Freed, Loot Unlimited
Mastered By – Wally Traugott
Photography By – Veronica Simm*
Producer – Brian Setzer (tracks: A1, A3, A6, B2, B4, B5), Chris Thomas (tracks: A5, B3), David A. Stewart (tracks: A2, B1, B6), Larson Paine (tracks: A1, A3, A4)
Remix – Bob Clearmountain (tracks: B2), Manu Guiot (tracks: A3), Scott MacPherson (tracks: B5)
Written-By – Bobby Paine (tracks: A3, B2, B5), Brian Setzer (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B4, B6), David A. Stewart (tracks: B6), Larson Paine (tracks: A1 to A3, B2, B5), Mario Roccuzzo (tracks: A3), Tommy Byrnes (tracks: A1, A5, A6, B3, B4)
Label: EMI-Manhattan Records – CDP-7-46963-2
Country: US
Released: 1988
Genre: Rock
Style: Rockabilly
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