{"id":6618,"date":"2015-08-31T17:16:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2015-08-31T17:18:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:18:40","slug":"wit-wisdom-and-evocation-emanate-from-richard-wiegels-wiegel-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevernacular.com\/?p=6618","title":{"rendered":"Wit, wisdom, and evocation emanate from Richard Wiegel’s “Wiegel Room”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Richard Wiegel – Wiegel Room<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For this CD, the \u00a0leader of the popular Madison area roots-rock band The Midwesterners \u00a0left very little \u201cWiegel Room\u201d for anything but his lonely and largely acoustic guitar. The strategy plays like a royal flush because he has some tricks up his sleeve. One tune, \u201cRichard\u2019s Rondo,\u201d just won the Madison Area Music Award for best classical composition. He chose a classical form for \u201cRondo,\u201d an utterly fetching sequence of expositions and recapitulations, enriched by bluesy harmonies.<\/p>\n

This delicious CD is largely folk-blues based, as per 1960s virtuosos John Fahey and Leo Kottke and their country-blues\/R&R precursors. The opening \u00a0\u201cBuddy Holly\u201d radiates all the genial charm of Buddy\u2019s bespectacled smile and exuberant romanticism. By contrast, the mordantly vocal bottleneck slide picking \u00a0of \u00a0\u201cWednesday Blues\u201d \u00a0sounds like \u00a0a working stiff mumbling \u00a0to himself, which the weight of \u201chump day\u201d can induce. \u201cLazy A\u201d is behind-the-beat picking with a third chorus of pinging chords hovering around the shuffling \u00a0A key like a taunting hummingbird. Throughout, Wiegel\u2019s gifts for the droll aside and the lyrical sigh shine.<\/p>\n

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Richard Wiegel. Courtesy richardwiegel.bandcamp.com<\/em><\/p>\n

Wiegel periodically enhances himself with adroit but never-overdone overdubs. and a few used a loop pedal. However Wiegel says applying those techniques may add a dimension but “you get what you get, you can’t go back and redo anything. Kind of like a Chinese watercolor.”<\/p>\n

And the wisely ironic closer, \u201cSlippery Slope,\u201d from a James McMurtry chord pattern, uses relatively new-tech electric distortion\u00a0on a 1970s Fender Mustang electric guitar, and recalls Bill Frisell. Wiegel suggests a human character — in a primping, inflated theme \u2013 a blustery politician who may not know he\u2019s slipping? Ah, hubris, that old devil moon, you got me flyin\u2019 high and low.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the humble, those with little \u201cWiegel Room\u201d for success, shall finally inherit the earth.<\/p>\n

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Wiegel reports that, with the loop pedal, he can perform all these songs live. His only current solo live date is at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 5 at Fitz on the Lake, W11602 County Rd. V, in Lodi WI.\u00a0<\/em>For information visit:\u00a0http:\/\/www.fitzsrestaurantlakewisconsin.com\/<\/a>.\u00a0Wiegel Room<\/em> is available at:\u00a0www.richardwiegel.bandcamp.com<\/a>\u00a0And extensive liner notes to the recording are available at http:\/\/themidwesterners.com\/news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This review, in slightly shorter form, was originally published in The Shepherd Express.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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