Baboon Strength (2008, Reap and Sow) Charlie Hunter's nineteenth studio album. ***A guitar "god" of a different genre, Charlie Hunter has been playing seven and eight-stringed guitars for some time, immersing himself primarily in jazz music. Baboon Strength, his latest and self-released album, doesn't see him taking any new turns. It'll be pleasing to the jazz fan, but beyond honestly interesting moments like the funky opener "Athens," the album sulks into easy though intricate instrumentals. It's not a bad thing at all, and Hunter's guitar technique is impressive, but not enthralling enough to say that Baboon Strength has anything to offer that others or even Hunter himself have said better.
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