Quiet Visitor wrote:That's a fine list! Great to see another Lyle Workman-fan.
My first exposure to Workman was the second Bourgeois Tagg album YoYo in the late 80s - I noticed that he had the lead songwriting credit on their modest hit, I Don't Mind At All, which I thought was the best thing they had created. Todd Rundgren produced the album and Workman went on to record and tour with Rundgren in the late 80s and early 90s. There was a video release of Rundgren's live performance during a tour of Japan.
Workman's name kept popping up on albums I purchased through the early to mid 90s - artists such as John Gorka, Patty Larkin, Kevin Gilbert and even legendary jazz drummer Tony Williams. And I always thought, oh that is the guy who wrote and played on that really good song I Don't Mind At All.
And when he replaced guitarist Shane Fontayne for Sting's set at Live 8 in 2005, I thought again, oh that is the guy...I like his playing.
But it wasn't until I heard Harmonic Crusader in 2009 that I became fully cognizant of what Workman was capable of creating. And Uncommon Measures is equally brilliant.