RENO BO - LESSONS FROM A SHOOTING STAR POWERPOP ORIGINALS LIMITED EDT SEALED LP

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RENO BO – Lessons From A Shooting Star. Electric Western Productions/You Are The Cosmos YATC-13. Spanish release. FACTORY SEALED NEW VINYL RECORD ALBUM. Issued in 2015. Limited edition of 300 copies. MUSICIANS:  Reno Bo (vocals, sounds, and all instruments except …), Doc Marshall (drums), Sadler Vaden (slide guitar on How Do You Do, additional guitars on Sweetheart Deal and The Brighter Side), and Jordan Lehning (background vocals on Sweetheart Deal). TRACKS:  Sweetheart Deal, How Do You Do, Just Say Go, Strange Maps, And I Know She Did, The Brighter Side, Sleeping Sun, Mumbo Johnny, Lessons From A Shooting Star, and Somewhere There’s Something. DESCRIPTION:  This may not be the greatest Powerpop album of the year (I’m a tough sell), but Reno Bo's (ex- The Mooney Suzuki) sophomore album has the right Powerpop chemistry of driving guitar melodies with sweet vocal appeal wrapped around a two fisted clutch of solid original compositions, and dare I say there is not a clunker in the bunch. What I find most cool about this album is the encyclopedic volume of stylistic name checks imbedded in the songs, particularly what I consider to be the stylistic markers of power pop (its genetic code):   Well you can’t miss those Brian Wilson/Beachboy harmony washes in the background. There’s The Beatles and both John and Paul individually too. Some of the higher register parts made me think of The Raspberries, there’s some Badfinger in there somewhere, Dwight Twilley, Todd Rundgren, and, least we not forget, Big Star. For fans of Matthew Sweet, Tom Petty, and Fountains of Wayne too. As a collector who’s been around since before Powerpops inception, Bo has done his homework:  is it inspiration or imitation? Some of the musical flow was worked out by arrangement with a sound in mind, but what raises this to a work of Powerpop art is that the arrangements left holes to be filled in with inspiration; he lets himself go (a leap of faith), creating his own sound; he’s obvious, but subtle at the same time. Ok, so now he’s made his #1 Record, next I want him to sweep away some of the sweetness and make his Radio City. This Spanish edition is limited to 300 copies.

ABOUT:  (as it appears on Reno’s website, and if you’re like me you know little to nothing about Reno Bo, so read on)

Lessons From A Shooting Star is the new album from Nashville based, New York born songwriter, musician, and producer Reno Bo. 2010 saw the release of and a tour in support of his debut album Happenings And Other Things. Before moving to Nashville TN, Bo spent the previous several years on the road playing bass with fellow New Yorkers Albert Hammond Jr (The Strokes) and The Mooney Suzuki and as leader and songwriter of The Fame (whose name Lady Gaga is rumored to have used as inspiration for her album of the same moniker.)

Bo was a middle-school kid living in Poughkeepsie, New York, when a friend gave him the Beatles' White Album on CD for Christmas. Bo hadn't listened much to classic rock radio; he was a pop fan, raised on Beach Boys records and the doo-wop songs of his parents' youth. The White Album blew the doors wide open, though, kicking Bo down a classic rock rabbit hole filled with the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers, Big Star's #1 Record, and Led Zeppelin I. There was no turning back.

Years later, those early influences are on full display with Lessons From A Shooting Star, an album that mixes the hooks and harmonies of classic pop music with the size, sweep, and swagger of rock & roll. It's Bo's second solo record, with the multi-instrumentalist handling virtually every job — from the songwriting to the bass guitar to the vocals to the production — himself. For a musician who'd spent the past decade touring the world as a member of other people's bands, Lessons From A Shooting Star was a chance to focus inward. It was a chance to make music that was completely his.

Lessons From A Shooting Star may be a modern album, but its basic ingredients — jangling electric guitar, B3 organ, harmonies, double-tracked melodies, Farfisa — cook up a sound that's nostalgic, too. The Brighter Side, a power-pop track co-written with Brendan Benson, could've been tracked at Ardent Studios during the 1970s, rather than Bo's own Nashville apartment during the mid-2010s. A similar vibe anchors songs like How Do You Do, which he recorded with guitarist Sadler Vaden, the only other musician to make it onto the album. With its influences proudly worn on its sleeve, Lessons From A Shooting Star nods to the music that shaped Bo's life back in New York while still pushing forward to something new. Looks like the guy has learned his lessons well.

On Happenings And Other Things, Bo worked with Fountains Of Wayne main man Adam Schlesinger (Stacy’s Mom, That Thing You Do.) His music has appeared on the hit ABC-TV show Nashville and in television commercials for Taco Bell, US Bank, Hardees, Kleenex, and others. He’s been seen and heard on Late Night with Conan O’Brien and the late famed British radio DJ John Peel’s Peel Sessions in the UK. As a member of the Cabin Down Below band - a collection of NYC musicians who produce Petty Fest, a tribute to Tom Petty in cities all over the U.S. - Bo has performed on stage with Norah Jones, Jakob Dylan, members of Kings Of Leon, Ann Wilson of Heart, Butch Walker, and Donald Fagen among others. If you pause your DVD player quickly enough, he can be spotted playing with The Mooney Suzuki in DreamWorks Pictures war satire Tropic Thunder, starring Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr.

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