Steve Lewis wrote:
>Steve Wynn is a rock musician who is most well-known
as as the leader of
>the Dream Syndicate in the 1980s, but who is still
active today. From a
>piece on him in today's Wall Street Journal, writer
Luke Torn says:
>
>"On each of his past three albums though, Mr. Wynn's
songwriting has taken
>a hardboiled turn, influenced by novelists like Jim
Thompson, James Ellroy
>and his friend George Pelecanos as much as by
like-minded songwriters like
>Tom Waits or Warren Zevon.
Talk about small worlds.
A mini-review of Wynn's latest CD, RIDING SHOTGUN, which
collects much of his most recent noir-tinged work, was just
posted on my upcoming music review site, which is temporarily
located at
http://www.kevinburtonsmith.com/ripthisjoint/index.html .
A fuller length review will be appearing soon on THRILLING
DETECTIVE.
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