Delicate Steve

Take a visit to Lukes Garage, Delicate Steves latest album, and youll discover a place where sparks of creativity fly in all directions, where melodies splatter the walls like brightly hued paint, where no idea is too simple, too ingenuous, too full of childlike wonder. The L.A.-via-Jersey guitarist born Steve Marion, whose credits include session work for Amen Dunes, Paul Simon, and Deradoorian, had no grand plan for making it: he would simply book some time at a friends studio, hunker down, and play. Hes always allowed intuition to guide him, composing his jubilantly tuneful instrumentals as he records them, but this time, he felt freer than ever to keep the seams showing, and dont polish everything, and keep it raw, and alive, and electric-feeling, he says. He chose the title, Lukes Garage, as a tribute to his pal and sometime collaborator Luke Temple, but also for the anything-goes adolescent innocence it conjured: the feeling of heading over to a buddys house, turning up the... Read more .