{"id":20358,"date":"2021-02-08T05:30:23","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=20358"},"modified":"2020-12-16T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T14:30:39","slug":"album-review-jack-oblivian-and-the-sheiks-lone-ranger-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/08\/album-review-jack-oblivian-and-the-sheiks-lone-ranger-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks &#8212; Lone Ranger of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20359\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jack_oblivian_ranger.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jack_oblivian_ranger.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jack_oblivian_ranger-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/jack_oblivian_ranger-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/08\/18\/album-review-jack-oblivian-the-dream-killers-lost-weekend\/\">Jack Oblivian<\/a> and the Sheiks released <i>Lone Ranger of Love<\/i> in 2016; as good as it was, it quickly went out of print. But Black and Wyatt Records has had the good sense to reissue it in late 2020. If your taste in music leads you to understand that King Khan and the Shrines\u2019 2008 compilation <i>The Supreme Genius of \u2026<\/i> ranks among the greatest records of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, then (a) you already have <i>Lone Ranger of Love<\/i> or (b) you simply must obtain it.<\/p>\n<p>With an even wider stylistic palette than Khan, Oblivian delivers tunes that explore a Stonesy vibe (\u201cFast Friends\u201d), full-speed-ahead punk (\u201cBoy in a Bubble\u201d), Southern punkabilly that channels Jerry Lee Lewis without sounding like him (\u201cHome in my Hand\u201d), New York Dolls sleazy swagger (\u201cDowntown\u201d) and T.Rex- style glam with a jungle beat (\u201cBlind Love\u201d). And that\u2019s just the first side of the album. Side Two opens with classic pop wrapped in barbed wire (\u201cStick to Me\u201d) and continues with a warped rethink of spaghetti western-flavored soundtrack music (the title track).<\/p>\n<p>The two-part \u201cLa Charra\u201d hammers home the point that Oblivian has more great musical ideas than he has tunes to use them in. That embarrassment of riches makes for a consistently enjoyable, relentlessly rocking album. He channels Wolfman Jack on \u201cLa Charra Pt. 1\u201d while the band \u2013 him on guitar, Keith Cooper on lead and bassist Frank McLallen and drummer Graham Winchester \u2013 lays down a groove that\u2019s equal parts menacing and hypnotic. The tune\u2019s second part is an instrumental featuring squalling lead guitar over the insistent, chugging riff.<\/p>\n<p>The cinematic \u201cRide Like the Wind\u201d shows the ease with which Oblivian can shift musical gears: it\u2019s different from everything else on the LP \u2013 lots of piano \u2013 but it nevertheless fits snugly into the record. Ace guitarist John Paul Keith guests on the album\u2019s closer, \u201cRunnin\u2019 from the Law,\u201d a nod to classic cowboy country that\u2019s a pure delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jack Oblivian and the Sheiks released Lone Ranger of Love in 2016; as good as it was, it quickly went out of print. But Black and Wyatt Records has had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,62,64,65],"tags":[3937],"class_list":["post-20358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punk","category-rawk","category-reissue","category-review","tag-jack-oblivian","cat-59-id","cat-62-id","cat-64-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20360,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20358\/revisions\/20360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}