by Pete Sargeant | Feb 24, 2017 | Reviews
Gimme Danger – The Story Of The Stooges Film Soundtrack (Rhino / Warners) Ah The Stooges! Back In The Day I hadn’t taken them too seriously BUT! Then the chap behind the counter at James Asman’s Record Shop near where I worked in the City of London handed me a vinyl...
by Pete Sargeant | Feb 24, 2017 | Reviews
Eric Gales Middle Of The Road (Provogue Records/Mascot Label Group) Now if there is one label you could NEVER put on guitarist and singer Eric Gales, it is ‘middle of the road’…other musicians I meet speak of Gales in hushed tones, as ‘out there’, ‘inspired’ and ‘a...
by Pete Sargeant | Feb 23, 2017 | Reviews
Lol Goodman Band Just Wanna Say…A Little Bit More (Right Track Records) If you handed a bunch of chefs the same bag of ingredients and asked them to produce a dish, they would likely all come back with something different, something of their own…and if you were to...
by Pete Sargeant | Feb 23, 2017 | Reviews
Dan Clews While Middle England Mows Its Lawn (Vista Music) Is that a smidgeon of contempt in that album title? Why so?..though I do recall an interesting indie outfit called The Strange Death Of Liberal England… some background info, then. The late Sir George Martin...
by Pete Sargeant | Feb 23, 2017 | Reviews
Jarrod Dickenson Ready The Horses (Hooked Records) Ready The Horses is the US equivalent of “ Taxi !!” and on this sonic evidence Mr Dickenson is indeed going somewhere. The track titles evoke Emmylou Harris or Vince Gill – the human condition, The West. The cuts were...
by Pete Sargeant | Feb 23, 2017 | Reviews
Ronnie Baker Brooks Times Have Changed (Provogue Records/Mascot Label Group) This artist’s father is the great Lonnie Brooks of warm voice and fluid guitar fame and his albums were essential purchases in earlier decades. Big shoes to fill. But R&B seems to come...
