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Minor 7th—September/October, 2001
A crooked line might indeed be the shortest distance between life milestones when the path is impeded by obstacles. But it might also be the natural arc of a rich and varied experience, however convoluted, as Darryl Purpose poetically intimates in his new CD “A Crooked Line.” Purpose should know, having arrived relatively late in his life to this, his current life assignment, after a zigzag start as a professional gambler and nuclear protestor. And so it’s easy to discern in these recordings that his passion for folksy songwriting is still fresh and new like the anticipation of new borders at the start of a journey. Taylor guitars has recognized too his fluency on fingerstyle guitar, naming him to their spokesperson’s bureau. Purpose is joined by several musical friends including Ellis Paul and Tracy Grammer on vocals, Dave Carter on banjo, Dan Tyack on pedal steel and dobro, and Doug Wintch contributing a screaming electric guitar line on the title track that sounds like David Lindley. “I Can Get There from Here” utilizes a string trio in a graceful Eleanor-Rigbyish way that lyrically wraps the message: “Kicking myself for the time I waste, Cursing these rocks in my way, When with tolerance and a gambler’s good grace, They become stepping stones leading my way.” —Alan |
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