Calling Up Spirits
Calling Up Spiritsis ostensibly surf guitar legend Dick Dale's attempt to translate Native-American musical traditions into instrumental rock. When you get down to it, however, it's just guitar pyrotechnics with a slight patina of tribal ritualism. There's really no reason for anyone but the hardest of hardcore Dale fetishists to own this record; its best song, "The Wedge Paradiso," soundsidenticalto the classic "Miserlou," horns included. He can still play like a master, but better to invest in an older album.--Keven McAlester