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BEV BEVAN'S CD PICKS JANUARY FAB FOUR
Chris Norman – Don’t Knock The Rock (Solo Sound)
Chris Norman is best known as lead singer with super successful seventies band Smokie, who had 11 top 20 hits in the UK between 1975 and 1978. Top tenners include: If You Think You Know How To Love Me; Don't Play Your Rock'n'Roll To Me; Living Next Door To Alice; It's Your Life and Oh Carol. For many years now Yorkshireman Chris has been pursuing a solo recording and touring career, being particularly popular on the continent and in Eastern Europe, where he regularly plays to massive audiences.
This latest solo album is a real cracker, with a lovely mix of rock, pop, rockabilly, rock'n'roll and ballads. Stand out songs, all self-written, include: Crawling Up The Wall; Sun Is Rising; Loving You; If We Had Wings; Resurrection; Chasing After Starlight and Straight To My Heart.
Chris Norman is one of the great rock voices of the seventies and now still one of the great rock voices of today.
Albert Castiglia – Up All Night (RUF) Released in 2017, Up All Night finds Albert Castiglia in a creative swagger after last year's Big Dog album. What wasn't broke then hasn't been fixed now, with the bluesman once again recording at Dockside Studios in Louisiana and capturing a warts and all mix alongside producer Mike Zito.
Born in August 1969 in New York, he moved to Florida aged five and made his professional debut in 1990 with Miami Blues Authority, but hit the international radar when Junior Wells invited him into his band for several world tours. Castiglia's solo career began with 2002's Burn, followed by albums A Stone's Throw, Keeping On and Living The Dream. This latest release features Albert Castiglia on guitar and vocals, Jimmy Pritchard on bass and Brian Menendez on drums, plus additional musicians Mike Zito on guitar and vocals, Lewis Stephens on keyboards, Sonny Landreth on slide guitar and Johnny Sansone on harmonica .
The Detroit Emeralds – I Think Of You – The Westbound Singles 1969-1975 (ACE)
One of the most popular soul trios of their time, both at home in the USA and here in the UK , where they toured frequently, the Detroit Emeralds' Westbound Singles maintained a constant presence on the soul and pop charts on both sides of the pond until the mid-seventies , when the original group split up.
The trio, from America's car manufacturing capital Detroit, consisted of Ivory Tilmon, James Mitchell and lead vocalist Abe Tilmon, whose untimely death at aged 37 robbed soul music of one of its more commercially-minded songwriters and producers. The singles featured in this collection are some of the best of their era, full of memorable riffs, commercial hooks and witty lyrics that marked the Detroit Emeralds as a group always worth hearing. Tracks include the UK hits, Feel The Need In Me, You Want It You Got It and I Think Of You.
Excalibur IV – The Dark Age Of The Dragon (Cherry Red)
Excalibur IV is the widely anticipated fourth new studio album in the Celtic Rock Opera series, following on from the gold and platinum selling original trilogy. Excalibur IV was played live in its entirety to 12 arenas in Germany in December 2016 and will be touring again in 2018.
The album features appearances by Alan Stivell; Michael Sadler (Saga); Jesse Sibenberg and John Helliwell (Su- pertramp); Martin Barre (Jethro Tull); Moya Brennan (Clannad); Roberto Tiranti (Labyrinth ); Siobhan Owen; Maite Itoiz (Elfhental); John Kelly (The Kelly Family) and Sonja Kristina (Curved Air ).
Tracks include The Sings Of The Dragon, Stonehenge, Silver Moon, The Last Lament Of A Fairy and The Fifth Season.
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