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One Track Mind: Al Di Meola, "Strawberry Fields" (2011)

One Track Mind: Al Di Meola, "Strawberry Fields" (2011)

Source: Something Else!

By Nick DeRiso Jazz guitarist Al Di Meola, the former teen prodigy in Return to Forever, accomplishes an uncommon thing here, making something out of a cover attempt at the Beatles' “Strawberry Fields Forever." The song has such an interior nature, thanks in no small way to John Lennon's brilliant Lewis Carroll-inspired word-play, but also because of its of-the-moment doob-rock pastiche. Sure, the Beatles had done many of these tricks before—strange chord progressions, the use of non-rock instrumentation (four trumpets, ...

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