The Straight Path - Chris Klondike Masuak & The North 40 (I-94 Bar Records)
Canadian-expat Aussie Chris “Klondike” Masuak’s the kind of guy who likes to put pictures of his guitars (Strat! Robin! Perspex Dan Armstrong! Firebird!) on his records (like his pal Deniz Tek did on his back-from-the-Navy career restarter “Take It to the Vertical:). One gets the sense that Klondike’s the kind of cat who just purely loves to play, and is as much of a fan as a muso.
It is actually quite hard to review the work of someone you know and I tend to avoid it wherever possible.