Known both as a first-call sideman\/session musician and a top-shelf film composer with credits including \u201cSuperbad,\u201d \u201cThe 40-Year-Old Virgin,\u201d and \u201cForgetting Sarah Marshall,\u201d prolific guitarist Lyle Workman will release \u201cUncommon Measures,\u201d his first solo album in a more than a decade, on February 19, 2021, via Blue Canoe Records. Featuring a 63-piece orchestra recorded live at Abbey Road under the direction of orchestrator extraordinaire John Ashton Thomas (\u201cBlack Panther,\u201d \u201cCaptain Marvel\u201d), the collection plays like the score to some epic film from an alternate dimension, mixing elements of progressive rock, jazz fusion, and romantic classical music with gleeful abandon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis record ties together all the different threads of who I am,\u201d explains Workman. \u201cIt was four years in the making due to my film and TV schedule, but it\u2019s really the culmination of a lifetime in music.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bursting at the seams with soaring arrangements and virtuosic performances, \u201cUncommon Measures\u201d showcases not only Workman\u2019s unparalleled musicianship, but also his profound empathy and expansive emotional vocabulary. The songs here are living, breathing entities, constantly growing and evolving in ways both subtle and drastic, and the production is similarly unpredictable, veering from larger-than-life bombast to whispered intimacy and back, sometimes within the very same track. The result is a record as extraordinary as it is unexpected, a captivating, transportive song cycle that manages to scale the dizzying heights of joy and sadness, love and friendship, self-discovery and celebration, all without a single word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLyle Workman is a completely accomplished and inspired guitarist, musician and composer,\u201d says Steve Vai. \u201cHe has a wicked command of the instrument and is perhaps one of three players I know of that can wield exotic orchestral compositions with either a screaming or whispering guitar. \u2018Uncommon Measures\u2019 is the masterful evidence of this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A California native, Workman\u2019s musical journey began in the mid-1980s, when he joined the Sacramento-based band Bourgeois Tagg. The group landed a deal with Island Records and gained international acclaim for their hit single \u201cI Don\u2019t Mind At All,\u201d a Workman co-write that helped earn performances on the Tonight Show, Top Of The Pops, American Bandstand, and their European equivalents. The band proved to be a launching pad for Workman, who soon began picking up gigs in the studio and on the road with the likes of Sting, Beck, Frank Black, Jellyfish, Todd Rundgren, Norah Jones, Bryan Adams, and jazz icon Tony Williams, who included Workman\u2019s \u201cMachu Picchu\u201d on his final album, \u201cWilderness,\u201d with Stanley Clarke and Herbie Hancock. Workman\u2019s skills as a sideman turned out to make him ideally suited for the world of film and television, as well, and work writing commercial jingles soon gave way to jobs composing for indie films, which opened the door to major studio releases and a connection with Judd Apatow, who began hiring Workman to score many of his projects. To date, Workman has composed music for films that have generated over a billion dollars at the box office worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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