Sneaky Pete Kleinow
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ROLL BACK | Review by Peter Aaron
As a crucial founding member of country rock trailblazers the Flying Burrito Brothers, Sneaky Pete Kleinow is revered as the man who single-handedly introduced the pedal steel guitar into rock ’n’ roll. His soaring, poignant lines and innovative use of mind-bending fuzztone on the Burritos’ 1969 debut, The Gilded Palace of Sin, are the perfect foil for Gram Parsons’s heartrending vocals and stand as some of rock’s most affecting and transcendental moments. These recordings, made for the Shiloh label between 1989 and 2001 before Kleinow’s 2007 death, find the guitarist’s skills still at their peak, his fleet slide and clawhammer picks going to town on “Cannonball Rag” and other display pieces. Unfortunately, the uber-glossy, saccharine production—rampant synth fills; reverb-heavy drums by (gag) Toto’s Jeff Pocaro—make this CD difficult to recommend to non-completists. Continue...
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