Waco,” Tommy’s homage to Billy Joe Shaver. I can’t even say how much I love this one, being a big Shaver fan. Talton really hits the nail squarely on the head in his description of Shaver, and the pickin’ has the whole Austin, Texas feel. Until After Then is another won- derful artistic achievement from one of the world’s finest songwriters and guitarists...3 Dayz Whizkey is back with their third album in three years, Steam, and the German Southern Rockers just keep getting better and better. Recorded live in the studio using vintage equipment, Steamrocks from the very first notes. All of the songs were written by Tilo George
Copperfield and produced by Big Tony at Captain´s Cabin Studios. The band is made up of Myles Tyler (vocals), T.G. Copperfield (guitar), Brad the Snake (guitar), Big Tony (bass), and Little Chris (drums). Big Tony and Little Chris are brothers, so they are a natural rhythm section. The 17-track album begins with a rocking
“Amen, Rock and Roll,” a tune that reminds me of the Blackberry Smoke vibe. It’s a great track to kick off this fine record. Another great rocker is “The Long Road,” a song about a musician taking a groupie on the road with him, and giving her fair warning that it won’t be an easy journey. Steamis filled with excel- lent rockers like “White Line,” “Water,” “One Way Street,” and the boyz toss out some Gov’t Mule sounding slow-jam on “Back to the Blues,” and even delve into some country music with the infectious love song “Another Day Goes By.” Honestly, in the past, some bands from
Europe that I otherwise liked kind of lost me because of their overbearing local accents in
the vocal department. Not so with these guys. They sound like they stepped out of a Jack- sonville bar- albeit an upscale bar. 3 Days Whizkey prove once again that Southern Rock is all about attitude, rather than geo- graphic location. Love it... Devon Allman’s latest solo album Ragged & Dirty is another good one. As with Turquoise, Allman steps up his game several more notches. What I find so impressive is that Allman is totally his own man with his own style. He doesn’t even try to sound like his world famous father. He doesn’t need to. He is that good. That being said, I am listening to “Can’t Lose ‘em All” and imagining a duet with Devon and Gregg swapping verses. Oh yeah, that would be pretty swank. Allman’s guitar playing blew me away on this outing. It’s got to be the gene pool, the same one that included Uncle Duane. Allman’s leads are just plain tasty. For example, the nearly ten-minute instrumental slow jam “Midnight Lake Michigan” brings to mind the music I loved so in the old days, what we affectionately refered to as “head music,” with major props to drummer/pro- ducer Tom Hambridge. It’s kind of like Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd meets Jeff Beck. I could listen to it all day long. One song that had me at “hello” was Devon’s remake of the seventies soul classic “I’ll Be Around.” Man oh man! Devon nails it to the wall. The man has soul! The whole album is filled with bril- liant musical surprises, and I have to say, I honestly feel it is Devon’s best work to
date...Preacher Stone is back with Pay Dirt, and our brothers from Norkick it up sev- eral more notches. From the hard country/Southern Rock opening rocker “Day Late” to the harmony-tight “Meet My Maker,” the band sets the stage with a one-two punch that will hook anybody from the get go. There is an undeniable Lynyrd Skynyrd influence, and the vocal harmony reminds me of the Zac Brown Band, but that being said, Preacher Stone is no generic Southern Rock clone band. Marty Hill and the gang have carved
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