Live 24-Seven - Entertainment Bev Bevan's CD Picks of the Month:
Kenny Loggins – High Adventure / Vox Humana (Beat Goes On) Two Eighties’ albums from Kenny Loggins, now re-mastered and re-released in one budget-priced, double-CD package. A fine singer/songwriter, Kenny first made his breakthrough onto the music scene as part of the duo Loggins and Messina, their biggest success being the top five American hit single Your Mama Can't Dance. Turning solo in 1977, more hits followed including Whenever I Call You Friend (a duet with Stevie Nicks) and the movie theme songs I'm Alright (from Caddyshack) and the title track from the 1984 dance movie Footloose. High Adventure, originally released in 1982, is a great album that includes Don't Fight It and Heart To Heart (both hits in the USA) and two gorgeous, big production ballads The More We Try and Only A Miracle. Vox Humana, from 1982, features nine songs all co-written by Kenny Loggins, standout tracks being Forever and No Looking Back.
Devon Allman – Ragged and Dirty (RUF) Devon Allman has toiled long and hard to establish his own musical identity, separate from his famous dad, Greg Allman. In fact Devon, who was raised by his mum (Shelley - not Cher) in Texas, took up playing guitar of his own accord and did not meet his dad until he was 15 years old. After playing in local bands in St Louis, he formed Honey Tribe in 1999, who toured on and off until 2010. The following year his musical fate changed when he became a founding member of Royal Southern Brotherhood. Since that genesis the band has become one of the major new attractions on the music scene, with non-stop tours and has just released it's second studio album. For this solo album, Devon Allman has left his southern comfort zone and put together a group of crack Chicago session men. There are traces of his father in his soulful voice and his uncle, the late, great Duane Allman, in his guitar playing. Tracks include Midnight Lake Michigan, Leave The City and covers of Otis Taylor's Ten Million Slaves, The Spinners' I'll Be Around and Luther Allison's Ragged And Dirty.
Willie Nelson – Band Of Brothers (Sony) This is the latest album from one of the most established singers and songwriters to have ever emerged from America's vast country and western scene. Willie Nelson began his career as a songwriter in Nashville and in 1961 penned two huge American hit singles – Crazy (Patsy Cline) and Hello Walls (Faron Young). By the Seventies he was singing on hits of his own with songs such as Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain and Good Hearted Woman. Even bigger hits followed in the Eighties with Always On My Mind and his duet with Julio Iglesias on To All The Girls I've Loved Before. This new 14-track album from 81-year-old Nelson has him singing as well as ever, his distinctive vocal style breezing through Vince Gill's Whenever You Come Around, Billy Joe Shavers' Hard To Be An Outlaw and the self-penned The Wall and Bring It On.
Suzy Quatro – The Girl From Detroit City (Cherry Red) I have met Suzi Quatro a few times – she once even asked me to join her band! She also happens to be the most successful female artist of the entire Glam Rock period, selling over 50 million records worldwide. In the UK she had 18 hit singles including chart toppers Can The Can and Devil Gate Drive. She has acted in TV shows such as Happy Days, Minder and Absolutely Fabulous, starred in the West End musical Annie Get Your Gun and has a radio show on BBC Radio 2. The Girl From Detroit City is a beautifully presented four-CD box set celebrating Suzi's amazing 50 years in the music business with 82 tracks in all, encompassing the whole of her career.
See Bev Bevan Appearing Live In Your Area With Quill at the Abbey Theatre in Nuneaton 1st Oct and at Nottingham Arts Centre 11th Oct.
In the show Stand Up And Rock in Leamington Spa 15th Oct; Dudley 16th Oct; Tewksbury 17th & 18th Oct; Birmingham Town Hall 21st Oct; Redditch 24th & 25th Oct; Shrewsbury 26th Oct and Sutton Coldfield 30th & 31st Oct.
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