MARSHALL CRENSHAW
Marshall Crenshaw (born November 11, 1953) is an American musician, singer and songwriter best known for his song “Someday, Someway”, a Top 40 hit in 1982. His music has roots in classic soul music, British Invasion songcraft, Burt Bacharach, and Buddy Holly — the latter to whom Crenshaw was often compared in the early days of his career, and whom he portrayed in the 1987 film La Bamba. Crenshaw is also a noted guitarist who uses offbeat chord progressions (almost verging towards jazz) and concise solos. (More from Wikipedia)
Chris Spedding is well known in his home country of England (at least by other musicians) but, sadly, has never really taken hold over here. Even the so-called experts don’t seem to get him right; Allmusic’s review of Enemy Within (talk about under-appreciated – they only give the record 2½ stars out of 5; of course, Hurt only got 3 stars) shows the songwriter as being “Speeding” instead of “Spedding”, except for the opening track “Hologram”, which I believe he co-wrote with Marshall Crenshaw.
(November 2011)
