When one of my guitar teachers during my collegiate times at
Rutgers was converting from being a progressive rock buff to a jazz student, I
was coming to him as a guitar student that was left handed and needed to work
on my right hand. Though, I am thankful
for that gift, it amazes me to this day how one could view an album like Coast
to Coast as anything but totally awesome, or of less quality than jazz. In my opinion, be it progressive rock,
progressive metal, rock fusion or even straight jazz, I do not see one of these
genres as inherently better than the others.
I have to recognize that an album like this one would fill
only a small niche in music these days because it is totally instrumental. Most regular folks without any experience
from a music teacher rarely head for music without a vocalist. However, speaking from my own personal
stance, many of my most favorite albums are all instrumental, meaning that they
have no vocalist.
In fact, this music is so original sounding to me, it sounds
like it could be called progressive instrumental country, but despite my own
inability to describe this album, it is really good. One thing you may expect, and be disappointed
or elated by is that Coast to Coast is that it will feature the Steve Morse,
while the rest of the band is poor background noise, as in the case of the Joe
Satriani band. That is not the case with
the band, Steve Morse. The only band I
know that sounds like it is Steve Morse’s other band, the Dixie Dregs.
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