Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2023
Time: 41:59
Size: 96,6 MB
Label: Flatiron Recordings
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front
Year: 2023
Time: 41:59
Size: 96,6 MB
Label: Flatiron Recordings
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front
Tracks Listing:
1. Walking In The Devil’s Shoes - 4:19
2. It’s So Easy To Slide - 5:12
3. Heart Of A Hurricane - 6:52
4. Mad Bad And Dangerous - 4:03
5. The Road Back Home - 4:48
6. Meet Me At The Bottom - 3:25
7. Sounded Like A Train - 5:03
8. Beneath That Muddy Water - 4:29
9. Time To Kill - 3:44
1. Walking In The Devil’s Shoes - 4:19
2. It’s So Easy To Slide - 5:12
3. Heart Of A Hurricane - 6:52
4. Mad Bad And Dangerous - 4:03
5. The Road Back Home - 4:48
6. Meet Me At The Bottom - 3:25
7. Sounded Like A Train - 5:03
8. Beneath That Muddy Water - 4:29
9. Time To Kill - 3:44
A Brave Mix of Classic 70’s British Blues Rock Blended With Contemporary 21st Century Urban Blues/Under normal circumstances receiving an album from the Ten Years After bass player; last heard of when I was a schoolboy 50 years ago, would have been given short shrift at RMHQ, I mean ‘bass players’ …. really? But the personal letter from the publicist (who knows my tastes) intrigued me and after only two minutes of the opening track Walking in The Devils’ Shoes I was in for the long haul …. Mark Pucci was correct, I would like it.
There’s not a lot to know about the band’s background apart from this is their first ‘worldwide’ release and was originally penned in to be recorded just as Covid stopped the world and they didn’t get into the studio until late ’22 when the original songs took on a whole new meaning in many cases.
While a statutory three piece; featuring Leo Lyons – bass, Joe Gooch – guitar/vocals and Damon Sawyer -drums there’s a wonderful mix of Classic 70’s Blues Rock of the British variety blended with the Contemporary 21st Century Blues championed by the likes of Joe Bonamassa and the Tedeschi Trucks Band, which comes out with sublime liquid gold in the form of Easy To Slide, The Road Back Home and the punchy Time To Kill when guitarist Joe Gooch channels his inner Steve Marriott circa the Humble Pie Years.
Obviously there’s a presumption that all three members will go off on wild ‘solo’ tangents when these songs are played in concert; but until then the punchy Mad Bad and Dangerous, and the pugnacious The Road Back Home remain tightly packed and crisp songs that will make for a perfect soundtrack to both driving down the motorway and/or doing the ironing!
There’s a delightful mix of ‘light and shade’ here that many of their contemporaries fail to achieve; with Beneath That Muddy Water, Black River and Easy on The Slide being very easy on the ear yet decidedly intricate lyrically and musically too.
For my Favourite Track here, the complex acoustic and greasily smooth, Blues of Meet Me at The Bottom has been my choice ever since last Monday when I played the album for the first time but yesterday and today a challenger has come into play in the guise of Sounded Like a Train which rocks along like a ride up a switchback mountain in a 1968 Ford Mustang Bullitt with dodgy brakes; but I’m probably sticking to my first choice and that one on the B-Side.
Bearing in mind that the band are trading under Leo Lyons’ name; the only band I can think of to compare them to is Rory Gallagher’s long-term bass player, Gerry McAvoy’s Band of Friends; who also stands in the shadows alongside a classy drummer, building a rock solid spine that allows the singer/guitarist free reign in the spotlight.
There’s not a lot to know about the band’s background apart from this is their first ‘worldwide’ release and was originally penned in to be recorded just as Covid stopped the world and they didn’t get into the studio until late ’22 when the original songs took on a whole new meaning in many cases.
While a statutory three piece; featuring Leo Lyons – bass, Joe Gooch – guitar/vocals and Damon Sawyer -drums there’s a wonderful mix of Classic 70’s Blues Rock of the British variety blended with the Contemporary 21st Century Blues championed by the likes of Joe Bonamassa and the Tedeschi Trucks Band, which comes out with sublime liquid gold in the form of Easy To Slide, The Road Back Home and the punchy Time To Kill when guitarist Joe Gooch channels his inner Steve Marriott circa the Humble Pie Years.
Obviously there’s a presumption that all three members will go off on wild ‘solo’ tangents when these songs are played in concert; but until then the punchy Mad Bad and Dangerous, and the pugnacious The Road Back Home remain tightly packed and crisp songs that will make for a perfect soundtrack to both driving down the motorway and/or doing the ironing!
There’s a delightful mix of ‘light and shade’ here that many of their contemporaries fail to achieve; with Beneath That Muddy Water, Black River and Easy on The Slide being very easy on the ear yet decidedly intricate lyrically and musically too.
For my Favourite Track here, the complex acoustic and greasily smooth, Blues of Meet Me at The Bottom has been my choice ever since last Monday when I played the album for the first time but yesterday and today a challenger has come into play in the guise of Sounded Like a Train which rocks along like a ride up a switchback mountain in a 1968 Ford Mustang Bullitt with dodgy brakes; but I’m probably sticking to my first choice and that one on the B-Side.
Bearing in mind that the band are trading under Leo Lyons’ name; the only band I can think of to compare them to is Rory Gallagher’s long-term bass player, Gerry McAvoy’s Band of Friends; who also stands in the shadows alongside a classy drummer, building a rock solid spine that allows the singer/guitarist free reign in the spotlight.
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