Rosie Flores - Working Girl's Guitar '2012

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Working Girl's Guitar
02. Little But I'm Loud
03. Yeah, Yeah
04. Surf Demon #5
05. Drug Store Rock and Roll
06. Love Must Have Passed Me By
07. Too Much
08. If (I Could Be With You)
09. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

In a better world, Rosie Flores would be a major star, given her estimable
skills as a guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist, and the truth is there are
plenty of roots rockers who have enjoyed more lucrative careers with far less to
offer musically. But if Flores has had to settle for the life of a cult heroine
and journeyman (journeyperson?) musician, she doesn't seem the least bit bitter
about it, and the title cut of her album Working Girl's Guitar finds her proudly
celebrating her life as a hard-working picker, as seen through the eyes of the
well-used Telecaster copy pictured on the front cover. Flores picks up a storm
all over Working Girl's Guitar, and though she's tasteful enough not to let her
solos get in the way of her songs, when she feels like tearing up the fretboard,
her chops are just as impressive as her melodic smarts, and she can strut her
stuff on tunes that lean toward country ("Yeah, Yeah"), rock & roll ("I'm Little
But I'm Loud"), surf ("Surf Demon #5"), vintage R&B ("If I Could Only Be with
You"), or rockabilly ("Too Much") and sound equally at home and fully in
command. Flores also pays tribute to her friend and inspiration Janis Martin
with a joyous cover of her classic "Drugstore Rock and Roll," and Flores' vocals
are just as limber and as spirited as her guitar work, no small accomplishment.
Flores has some talented accompanists on this project, including Greg Leisz on
pedal steel, Tommy Vee on bass, and Noah Levy on drums, but this is Rosie's show
from the jump, and her jazzy re-imagining of George Harrison's "While My Guitar
Gently Weeps" closes out the show in style. Working Girl's Guitar shows that
Rosie Flores is still earning her keep as a musician the old-fashioned way, and
she sounds like she's loving every minute of it -- and when the music's this
good, there no reason she shouldn't.



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