Shane Dwight – A Hundred White Lies
I can’t remember the last time I was totally spent from listening to an album, but Shane Dwight’s “A Hundred White Lies” left me lying in a little pool of “Oh, wow, what was that?”
The fiery blues rock guitarist and soulful singer shows no mercy on this R-Tist Records release – the eighth in his career. Grammy-nominated producer and next-door neighbor Kevin McKendree leads a tight ensemble of Nashville musicians, and the wild-abandon background singing of Bekka Bramlett and the McCrary Sisters raises up production levels to rock ‘n’ roll heavens of an era gone by. It’s quality stuff from the moment doors blast open with “Call Me” and Dwight’s slow-burn solos and easy-bluesy groove, to his final track “Leave The Light On,” where the singer’s combustible and on-the-edge vocals did me in.
Sunny California born and bred, and now living in Franklin, Tennessee, Dwight composed eleven of the twelve offerings here, and fueled by the break-up of his marriage, he paints a swath of dark veneer over his songs with raw, palpable, late-night guitar work.
The artist deftly handles it all – swampy rock, Delta blues, boogie-woogie, even alt. country – with a little downhome Mellencamp mixed into his vocals. Emotional high energy is unrelenting on this record, and his gasoline-on-a-fire guitar playing consumes all in its path.
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