February 15, 2012

Otis Taylor: Contraband

It's hard to describe Taylor, nominally a bluesman but, like James Blood Ulmer or another inscrutable picker, he;s more a mutant of the genre. He' won't get lost in something primal — a repeated phrase, worked to the point of exhaustion like Richie Havens singing "Freedom" — or keep things even-paced and laid-back, yet he finds himself pocketed with menace and portent.

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38 Special: Hard Rock Live, Biloxi, MS, 01/14/12

Chock full of rockers that got the heart pounding as well as the fists, 38 Special appeared to be having fun. Vocalist Donnie Van Zant roamed the stage with a noticeable hitch in his giddy-up, playing around with Chauncey and flashing a million watt smile. Barnes was more the calm-cool-and-collected guy, unlike his 1980’s persona, but his playing was not cold by any means. For his spotlight solo that kicked into “Trooper With An Attitude”, he led the audience on a finger-tapping scatfest. “Oh man, I love this job”, he said midway through.

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Islands: A Sleep & A Forgetting

Nick Thorburn is more confident in his craft which is evident in his back to basics approach.  Thorburn's candor does not mean he has lost any of his trademark catchifisity (prolific catchiness). For Canadian born Thorburn, A Sleep & A Feeling comes out between Lincoln and Washington's birthdays, which is fitting because it might be Island’s Jay Treaty or even Emancipation Proclamation.

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