Imagination
- CD release by John Eberly
Produced by John Eberly
Recorded by
- Tom Page
- Joel Sanderson
- MIke Coykendall
Featuring:
- Bill Goffrier
- Jesse Howes
- Jon Eaton
- Joel Sanderson
- Brett Rosencutter
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"Imagination"
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John Eberly
709 N. Washington
Hutchinson, KS 67501.
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10 Local Albums:
2004 turned out to be a great year for
recorded music in Wichita with Split Lip Rayfield and John Eberly
returning, Steve Barnes and the Country Money Band and White Knuckle
Driver debuting (and the latter later reconfiguring as Sans Napoleon).
This Top Ten list represents only a small number of locally-released
albums and misses some topnotch discs, including7/8 Quick's Rebuilder,
the King Snakes'sIssues Up Top, Scenery'sBlowing The Clambake, the
Cobra Movement'sWichita, Kansas andThis Great October's Red Album.
Those, like the others listed below, will forever mark 2004 as a great
year in music. Buy local, demand local.
1.Imagination
— John Eberly: This former Mumbles man steps up to the mic, speaks
loud and clear and gives us an earful of inspired rock 'n' roll.Imagination
John Eberly Toptone, 2004
From
F5, Wichita AltMusic Magazine
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Eberly's Imagination
Originally published June 17, 2004
by Jedd Beaudoin
jbeaudoin@f5wichita.com
John Eberly's Imagination is the sound of a slackerish rock 'n'
roll fan who decides one hot summer morning to put on some old favorite
records and then come the afternoon decides that he's going to write
some songs that capture the zeitgeist of his musical youth.
You can almost hear the scratches
in the hardwood floors and feel the rips in the cushions and smell
the stale smoke and overflowing ashtrays, see the dog-eared vinyl
jackets lined up wall to wall on one end of the room as Eberly moves
through peak-era Bowie-isms ("The Actors"), channels college
radio circa 1981 ("You Looked Away") and breaks out the
crosscut saw guitars ("Roll and Tumble," which features
six-string action from Softie/The Mess man Jon Eaton).
But maybe it's not so much that Eberly
is necessarily trying to recapture a bygone era, maybe it's just
that the songs seem to ooze effortlessly from him, that he doesn't
over-think his craft, that he just gets it overwith and plays for
chrissakes, that makes Imagination so much fun.
Whatever his intentions or our interpretations,
it's clear that Eberly is the product of a loving musical youth
as Imagination features traces of the Psychedelic Furs (maybe),
Lou Reed, Mott the Hoople and any number of bands blaring their
way out of New York City in the wake of the Talking Heads.
Backed by an impressive host of musicians
(Eaton, Britt Rosencutter, Tom Page and Jesse Howes all of the Mess,
plus others), Eberly keeps listeners moving with him for the better
part of an hour, keeping our attention while stretching the boundaries
of our minds.
And while some could make the argument
that there are rough edges here and there, that Imagination is not
a "pretty" record in the tradition of, say, No Doubt,
this platter remains expert capture of the raw fun of rock 'n' roll.
From F5, Wichita AltMusic Magazine
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