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Title: Goldmark misses the mark
Review: If you recently felt tremors in the earth, it is because deceased steel guitar legends like Jerry Byrd are now rolling in their graves. "Strong Like Bull but Sensitive Like Squirrel" is unusually uninspiring and unbelievably unoriginal. Both the jazzy intellectualism and Hawaiian slack-key influence of most instrumental steel guitar music has been replaced with the simple conventions of rock and pop. Granted, steel guitar music may not need twang to be good. Although if the twang is going to be surgically removed, there needs to be something of substance to fill the emptiness and Joe Goldmark leaves a soulless void. Goldmark's predictable songs are often punctuated with a Kenny G sounding saxophone or vocals that are simply embarrassing. The overall mood is light and happy as the tunes project a powerful optimism. If you enjoy light instrumental rock, you may dig this; if you're a steel guitar buff, run like hell!
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