Rockabilly Renaissance Man
Dec 28, 2021
4 minutes
By Alan di Perna
“I WANTED TO take all of the sophistication out of it,” Paul Pigat says of Let’s Go!, the latest album by his rockabilly trio Cousin Harley. But few, if any, would call the disc’s 10 retro-rock scorchers unsophisticated. Pigat has a knack for crafting dazzlingly tight guitar solos that sit gemlike within well-honed songs that he dashes off with apparent ease.
“I took a little lesson from AC/DC on the solos for this record,” he says.
“And that’s to make the solo completely different from the rest of the song. Rather than just soloing over a verse or bridge progression, there’s a new harmonic
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