Despite a demanding tour schedule with his revisiting of the early music of Genesis to which he made such a definitive contribution, this new record, “The Circus and the Nightwhale” will be his thirtieth solo work. It is an ambitious and rich record, and we get the full range of Hackett’s guitar voices, from the signature fast runs, fret-tapping, and wailing vibrato to more conventional blues rock sounds and of course his classical and Spanish guitar playing.
