Allan Holdsworth - Sixteen Men Of Tain (rel.2000)

Front Cover	Album Info
	Artist/Composer Allan Holdsworth Title Sixteen Men Of Tain Length 53:00 Discs: 1 Tracks: 10 Format CD Packaging Jewel Case Label Globe Music/ Gnarly Geezer Cat. Number GMMA 2200-2 Style Fusion; Progressive Rock Rating

Musicians	Credits
Allan Holdsworth el.guitar Dave Carpenter acoustic & el. bass Gary Novak drums Walt Fowler trumpet Chad Wackerman drums	Producer Allan Holdsworth Engineer Chris Bellman Engineer Bernie Grundman

Track list

01 San Onofre 05:48 02 0274 07:45 03 The Sixteen Men Of Tain 06:27 04 Above And Below 03:08 05 The Drums Were Yellow 05:59 06 Texas 05:45 07 Downside Up 07:07 08 Eidolon 04:37 09 Above And Below (Reprise) 04:10 10 Material Real 02:14

Notes

_AMG Review (4 1/2): Coming on the heels of some rather mediocre efforts, The Sixteen Men of Tain is startlingly superb. Holdsworth has stripped away the distracting banks of keyboards and allowed his soaring, gliding guitar to shine through in a way it hasn't since the 1980s. Even the Synthaxe, Holdsworth's signature guitar synthesizer, sounds organic and immediate, not to mention far less prevalent than on previous albums. Dave Carpenter's acoustic bass is a radical departure (check out his solo on the title track), as are Walt Fowler's two guest appearances on trumpet. "The Drums Were Yellow," a burning guitar/drum duet tribute to the late Tony Williams, is also a first. Gary Novak's drumming is appropriately complex and riveting on this and six other tracks. (Holdsworth's old compatriot Chad Wackerman sits in for "Downside Up.") In short, this album is full of fresh ideas and unadulterated improvisational brilliance — just when it was beginning to seem that Holdsworth's best work was behind him. — David R. Adler