Doug Tuttle has a great set of playlists on Spotify that encapsulate a whole portion of my record collection and taste than a chapter of explanation can. That jingle jangle morning thing that The Byrds first nailed with Rickenbacker guitars in 1965 and returned and surged forward anew, most tellingly for me with R.E.M.'s Murmur in 1983.
Tuttle loves and reveres that stuff just as much as I do. And he's trying to express that untrammelled joy once more on latest album Keeping Alive. He's been returning to this seam compellingly for ten years on solo albums, and he had previous prior to that with MMOSS.
It's business as usual on Keeping Alive. Not so much keeping alive so much as keeping the flame alive. Of Dylan, Beatles, Byrds, Hollies, Neil Young, Creedence, Groovies, Petty, R.E.M., Stone Roses, Fanclub and anyone else who's ever cared to chime, rock plangently and drift into a certain kind of dream.
It's another rather wonderful record for people with a certain kind of taste. Tuttle as you'd expect never puts a foot wrong. He's a master of this craft.
Got that great jangle vibe 👏
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