Tales From This Side

**Cross-posted from ADT Music **  Song:  Trinity Road ( listen ) Album:  Chapter Eleven (1995) ( listen ) Artist:  Michael Lee Firkins I'm a sucker for a lot of things: baroque writing, painfully arduous hikes, and really, really hot salsa, to name a few.  Although this song is none of those things, it is something else that I'm an absolute sucker for:  melodic guitar music.  I tend to like music that was once cool (like 70's guitar rock), music that has never been cool (like progressive, conceptual rock), and most certainly music that would get any red-blooded male laughed at in a biker bar (like the sort of guitar balladry that Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have become semi-famous for). Michael Lee Firkins falls into step with this latter group of musicians for writing complex, guitar-based, instrumental music.  The origins of this "genre" are oftentimes attributed to Joe Satriani, who first made a ...

It seems to me that the fellow with Pornstar emblazoned upon his shirt seems least likely to be one in a starring role; That the girl with Love boldly across her chest seems not to love me looking at her; That the seat in the pants labeled Juicy is really a bit more than overripe. Would he be less or more if the Chinese tattoo that he thinks says Loyal actually said Lonely ? Would you know that the calluses on her fingertips said that she played the guitar every Friday night; That the sawdust on his pant leg said that he worked with his hands; That the faded, green t-shirt on sale at the Salvation Army fit snugly over a label once, but that he outgrew it? I'd rather trust a countryman than a townman, You can judge by his eyes, take a look if you can.