Pat DiNizio's first two solo albums showed him moving away from the sound and style he established in his work with the Smithereens to explore different musical textures, especially 2006's jazz-influenced This Is Pat DiNizio, so there's a certain irony in the fact his third long player, simply called Pat DiNizio, is the one that most clearly recalls his work with his group. Most of the tunes on Pat DiNizio follow the Smithereens' classic template of '60s-style pop with big guitars, ...   [ read more ]

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Smithereens frontman Pat DiNizio leaves his guitar in the case and croons 16 pop classics in a smooth, low-key style on This Is Pat DiNizio, his second solo album. As DiNizio points out in his liner notes, there's been a run on albums devoted to "the American songbook" in recent years, but while he tackles a couple bone fide standards here, for the most part the set list is made up of tunes familiar to anyone who came of age in the 1960s -- covers of the Beatles, the Beach Boys, {$S...   [ read more ]

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After cutting two albums of Beatles tunes with his band the Smithereens and a solo album of pop standards in 2006, Pat DiNizio seems to have taken an extended holiday from songwriting, a notion reinforced by his latest project, in which he interprets 11 songs from the Buddy Holly songbook. Given the bright, youthful sound of Holly's classic recordings and the dark, dour tone of DiNizio's voice, this would seem to be an odd match of artist and songwriter on the surface, but DiNizio h...   [ read more ]

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