Alex Sniderman

Alex Sniderman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 18, 2000)
• Original Release Date: July 11, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Redeye Distribution
• ASIN: B00004W1KF
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,394,659 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

About the Artist

Basic rock and roll is not dead, it just needs a clean blow to the head.

Obsessed with rock history and yearning to make some of his own, New Yorker (by way of Murfreesboro, Tennessee) Alex Sniderman’s songs are anxious, self-effacing, and heartbreaking. From the loneliness of unrequited love to the prowess of Barry White, this record covers the spectrum of human experience in less than an hour.

Recorded over four days with Wayne Kramer of The MC5 producing, Sniderman marries the sonic blast of The Replacements, Richard Hell, and Jonathan Richman to the emotional honesty of American folk music (as played by a charming garage band with more fire than skill.) The result sounds something like Kris Kristofferson fronting The Jam. Sniderman refers to his signature noise as "avant-roots music."

Kramer adds some of his legendary lead guitar muscle to four of the album’s ten songs. In addition to Brother Wayne’s contributions, Sniderman’s co-conspirators include bassist/producer Brad Jones (Jill Sobule, Marshall Crenshaw, Yo La Tengo), and frenetic drummer Paul Turpin’s on nine of the records ten songs. The leadoff track, "She’s Emotion," features drummer Chucki Burke (Willie Dixon, Isaac Hayes) and bassist Keith Christopher (Georgia Satellites, Billy Joe Shaver). "She’s Emotion" music video is contained on the enhanced CD, which you can play on your computer.

An engaging balance of noise and silence, Alex Sniderman introduces to the music world to a new voice that will pique your interest and won’t shut up.

Product Description

Recorded over four days with Wayne Kramer of The MC5 producing, Alex Sniderman combines the sonic blast of The Replacements, Richard Hell, and Jonathan Richman with the emotional honesty of American folk music. Sniderman’s signature noise is Avant-Roots music for those with no time for phony Alternatives.

In addition to Kramer’s legendary guitar work on four of the songs, Sniderman’s co-conspirators include bassist/producer Brad Jones (Jill Sobule, Marshall Crenshaw, Ron Sexsmith), bassist Keith Christopher (Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Billy Joe Shaver) and drummer Chucki Burke (Issac Hayes, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins).

You can even watch the video for the song“She’s' Emotion” on your computer!

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Customer Reviews

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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A songwriter, if you will..., March 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Alex Sniderman (Audio CD)

Alex Sniderman is a songwriter, there is no question about that. Alex wears his leather jacket in the fashion that only a [grown up] songwriter can. I am quite confident that he achieves his guitar tone, by a combination of using extra thick acrylic picks, a curly lead (with brass jacks) and an attention to finger vibrato, that would confound most axe men; he is a musician. As I listen to his music I am reminded of Tunisia, not because of any likeness his compositions bear to the country, but it's just that I met somebody called Alex in Tunisia once; he bought me a beer and let me use his sun-tan lotion. If you're looking for a hard hitting rap record, then Mr Sniderman isn't for you, however, if you like your songwriters to be American, male and under the age of 40, then you could do worse than to buy this album, I did, and I wouldn't hesitate to again, if for any reason I mislaid my copy, or it was stolen from my bag whilst travelling on a train or a bus. For fear of resorting to lazy cliches, "I am a fan." You might be too.