Year: 2017
Time: 57:05
Size: 131,4 MB
Label: Eigen Beheer
Styles: Southern Rock
Art: Front
Tracks Listing:
1. God Bless America - 3:54
2. All Falling Down - 5:16
3. Fault Line - 5:21
4. Don’t Run Away - 4:49
5. Hey, mr. Bird - 4:52
6. Who You Gonna Call - 3:19
7. She’s Gone - 3:39
8. Walking in the Sun - 4:28
9. Pride - 4:53
10. Plenty of Time - 4:46
11. Sweet Dream - 3:09
12. Ticket of Life - 4:35
13. Downtown Parking Lot - 3:56
This is a simply lovely album from a UK outfit with a blues-cum-Americana outlook, feel and beauty. Fronted by guitarist and songwriter Richard Townend, the band is tightly controlled with hints of seventies US, West Coast, Laurel Canyon sounds and sensibilities.
In many ways this has a Knopfleresque feel but, having been listening to this outfit for some years now, it is surely time to shrug aside that sort of thinking. Maybe, and probably inevitably, Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits have been influences and interests back in the past, but Townend has clearly slipped off that yolk and moved on with his own distinctive style and delicious delivery.
Townend is a mighty clever lyricist, a guy who can work a theme and run a rippling roll of fretwork and melody to match the thinking. The result is a genuinely individual and engaging musical take and outlook. I must confess to being a fan and advocate of this band and its music. With ‘God Bless America’ it seems evident that they have moved ahead, running onto a new path of irresistible modern, top notch music, always with a blues edge at heart but aided by a keen eye towards the Americana future. This is a true delight, an album to savour.
God Bless America
Obrigada !!!
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