Used Guitars
Studio album by
Marti Jones
Released1988
LabelA&M
ProducerDon Dixon
Marti Jones chronology
Match Game
(1986)		 Used Guitars
(1988)		 Any Kind of Lie
(1990)

Used Guitars is an album by the American musician Marti Jones, released in 1988.[1][2] Jones supported the album by playing shows that included many of the album's guest musicians.[3] The album was a commercial disappointment, and A&M Records dropped Jones shortly after its release.[4][5]

Production

Recorded over five weeks in Charlotte, North Carolina, the album was produced by Don Dixon.[6][7] Jones described Used Guitars as a concept album about women discussing the nature of love.[8] Marshall Crenshaw, the Uptown Horns, and Mitch Easter contributed to the album.[9][10]

Jones and Dixon cowrote three of the album's songs.[11] Janis Ian wrote two songs.[12] "Each Time" is a cover of the Jackie DeShannon song.[13] Sonny Landreth played dobro on "If I Can Love Somebody".[14] "Tourist Town" is about a squabble with a boyfriend.[15]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[16]
Chicago Sun-Times[11]
Robert ChristgauC+[17]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide[18]
The Philadelphia Inquirer[19]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[20]

The Washington Post wrote that Jones "still isn't really an interpretive, emotive singer, [but] has a distinctive sound and has never appeared so confident and risk-taking."[13] The Philadelphia Inquirer praised Jones's "crystalline vocal testimony."[19]The New York Times opined that Jones "has one of those flexible, innately emotional voices that, with only the most minor adjustments in inflection, can accommodate rock, country, pop-soul and sophisticated torch music with equal facility."[21]

The Ottawa Citizen concluded that "Jones twists folk music into the new shapes necessary to make it a pertinent music form again."[22] The Houston Chronicle deemed Jones "a spooky cross between Dusty Springfield and Joni Mitchell."[23] Robert Christgau regarded the Graham Parker cover to be the album's best song.[17] The Kingston Whig-Standard considered the album to be among the best of 1988.[14]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Tourist Town" 
2."Wind in the Trees" 
3."The Real One" 
4."Ruby" 
5."Back of the Line" 
6."Twisted Vines" 
7."Keep Me in the Dark" 
8."You Can't Take Love for Granted" 
9."I Don't Want Him (Anymore)" 
10."Each Time" 
11."If I Can Love Somebody" 

References

  1. ↑ Milward, John (6 July 1988). "Popular". USA Today. p. 4D.
  2. ↑ Duffy, Thom (24 July 1988). "Music". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. p. 6.
  3. ↑ Snider, Eric (27 July 1988). "Live music lights up N.Y. nights". St. Petersburg Times. p. 1D.
  4. ↑ Minkin, Jay. "Marti Jones & Don Dixon are Northeast Ohio's Royal Couple". No Depression. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "Marti Jones Biography by Jason Ankeny". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  6. ↑ Emerson, Bo (August 21, 1988). "Don Dixon's Track Record". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. M1.
  7. ↑ Goldstein, Patrick (17 July 1988). "Pop Eye". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 77.
  8. ↑ Williams, Stephen (17 July 1988). "An All-Star Cast, Starring Marti Jones". Part II. Newsday. p. 15.
  9. ↑ Heim, Chris (2 Sep 1988). "Marti Jones, Used Guitars". Friday. Chicago Tribune. p. 56.
  10. ↑ "Marti Jones". Trouser Press. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  11. 1 2 McLeese, Don (July 4, 1988). "Marti Jones uses subtlety in new 'Used Guitars' LP". Features. Chicago Sun-Times. p. 15.
  12. ↑ Pick, Steve (22 July 1988). "Some Hot New Music for Summer". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. p. G4.
  13. 1 2 Brown, Joe (8 July 1988). "Women without Musical Hats". The Washington Post. p. N20.
  14. 1 2 Burliuk, Greg (24 Sep 1988). "The Old New Wave". Magazine. The Kingston Whig-Standard. p. 1.
  15. ↑ Smith, Andy (October 10, 1988). "Marti Jones at the Living Room". The Providence Journal. p. B1.
  16. ↑ "Used Guitars Review by Jason Ankeny". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  17. 1 2 "Marti Jones". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  18. ↑ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 613.
  19. 1 2 Moon, Tom (17 July 1988). "Marti Jones Used Guitars". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. I10.
  20. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 379.
  21. ↑ Holden, Stephen (25 July 1988). "Old Friends, New Songs and Drama". The New York Times. p. C14.
  22. ↑ Erskine, Evelyn (12 Aug 1988). "Marti Jones Used Guitars". Ottawa Citizen. p. B6.
  23. ↑ Shefchik, Rick (August 7, 1988). "Records". Zest. Houston Chronicle. p. 11.
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