On Lip Service, EG Kight beefs up her country-flavored southern-fried blues with some very heavy hitters from the world of southern rock: producer/keyboardist Paul Hornsby (Marshall Tucker, Charlie Daniels, etc.), keyboardist Randall Bramblett (Sea Leavell, Bonnie Raitt, etc.), guitarist Tommy Talton (Cowboy), Capricorn Records session drummer Bill Stewart, and horn players Earl Ford and Marcus Henderson. The CD also features her great road band and a duet with rising blues star John Nemeth.
The album opens with bombs exploding and Tim's voice climbing into the sky as he straighfrowardly, almost weepingly, derides war - THE war - a protest song if there ever was one, but beautiful nonetheless. Anger never turns to noise. There is a touch of madrigal in Kight-Errant. Here, Tim tears through the heart as well as puts out some powerfully vivid lyrical imagery on "I Never Asked to Be Your Mountain", one of my desert-island 10 songs; maybe 5, if they make me pick. His voice, reportedy on the 16th-or-so take of a 6-minute burning coal in which he sings almost without break, flies in the stratosphere, then out of orbit, once breaking into ascending but still-in-tune sobs. He experiments with harpsichords on "Carnival Song"….
The Decameron series is put together by Colossus magazine and in it, they bring together progressive rock artists from all over the world to make what is usually a multi-disc compilation album, but even by those standards, this four CD set is their most elaborate yet. Look at who is here!