Alan Licht - Three Chords and a Sword: Solo Cover Versions 1988-2021 (2022) [Hi-Res]

Three Chords and a Sword is a collection of eight cover songs recorded by rock/experimental musician Alan Licht over a span of three decades. Re-imagining both Van Halen’s “Jump” and Sonic Youth’s “Tom Violence” from the perspective of American Primitive guitar soli, employing a chord organ to twist Pere Ubu’s “Heart of Darkness” and Fred Neil’s “Everybody’s Talkin’” into eerie, doom-laden ballads, conjuring the sound of New York’s Suicide with little more than a microphone and patch cord, each song emerges transformed. Even the rarely-heard Bob Dylan spoken word piece “Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie” is markedly different from the original as heard in Licht’s voice. Licht’s interpretations echo from a childhood encounter with a Larry Rivers pop art painting drawn from a coloring book of Japanese art, which inspired the album cover.



Tracklist:
1 01. Alan Licht - Heart Of Darkness (05:54)
1 02. Alan Licht - Jump (04:25)
1 03. Alan Licht - Stable Will (04:40)
1 04. Alan Licht - Rocket USA (03:02)
1 05. Alan Licht - Tom Violence (07:22)
1 06. Alan Licht - Everybody's Talkin' (05:16)
1 07. Alan Licht - Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie (07:06)
1 08. Alan Licht - 1970 (14:58)