The revived Dolls, 2009: Sami Yaffa, Johansen, Brian Delaney, Steve Conte, Sylvain Sylvain We talked to him over the phone from New York. And he celebrates a panoply of music weekly on his Mansion of Fun show on Sirius XM's The Loft. An occasional actor, Johansen turned to country blues in The Harry Smiths, named after the eccentric folklorist. Her roots don’t show.Īs if to underline the disconnect, the cover photo has her clutching a violin at the side of the road, her gorgeous head entirely cropped out of the photo.David Johansen has been a persistent part of rock and roll for nearly half a century, as the frontman of the influential pre-punk glam of the New York Dolls in the early 1970s to his solo turn that brought soca to the pop charts under the name Buster Poindexter. The resonant feelings get smoothed over in the glossy production and too-familiar power chords it’s as if the album was made for that AOR radio format which doesn’t really exist anymore. White Lines seems ruefully autobiographical, about a life in constant motion that somehow hasn’t changed much for a former Army brat now in her early 40s.
Tyrell sounds like she’s been sublimating her own musical emotions for so long that she can’t quite connect with the surprisingly complex, personal and articulately rendered words and music she’s written. The Boss returns the favor to play lead guitar on “White Lines”, the opening and title track to Tyrell’s solo debut.īut there are reasons chorus girls don’t always triumph in the spotlight. How could you not fall in love with New York club favorite Soozie Tyrell? The violin-playing redhead sang like a horny angel as part of Buster Poindexter’s backup group in the 1980s since then, she’s played with everyone from John Hammond to Sheryl Crow to Bruce Springsteen.
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