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Michelle Malone Slings & Arrows


(SBS Records) Three decades after


recording her first album New Experience in 1988, Georgia songstress/guitarist Michelle Malone is re- leasing her sixteenth


studio album, Slings & Arrows. This boda- cious record, smothered in southern rock and hard-edged blues, is loaded with lyrics so sharp, they cut to the bone. I’m captivated right from the start. With Malone on vocals, guitars, harmonica, and mandolin, her band consists of Doug Kees on electric guitar, bassist Robby Handley (LarkinPoe), drum- mer Christopher Burroughs, and percussion- ist Trish Land. The album contains nine original songs and a fascinating cover of Otis Redding’s “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” which was performed as a duet with Shawn Mullins. I happily soak up the wonderful Sixties


soul doused over “Sugar on My Tongue”. Malone’s vocals are smooth as glass, and take on a Motown persona, while the band is hold- ing court in a Memphis Stax fashion. It sounds great. The foot-stomping, hill country blues of “Beast’s Boogie” cradles me in its dancing hypnotic rhythm. Malone tops this favorite with a big juicy scoop of harmonica and a delicious side of slide. I love how “Civil War” begins so delicately and magnificently evolves into a full-fledge southern rock head- banger. A feeling of melancholy washes over as Malone beautifully sings from the bottom of a broken heart in “The Flame.” It’s an amazing song indeed. In fact, the whole album is plumb terrific.


-Phillip Smith


Tommy Miles & The Milestones Ol’ Dude with an Attitude (Merlin Sights Records) Tommy Miles albums


are always fun, and this new one is even more fun. The singer/songwriter de- livers his pure southern vocals with fire and fury, beginning with “Fire One Up,” a fun tribute to the


joys of marijuana, complete with a name-drop of one Willie Nelson. Smokin.’ With “Anything But Goodbye,” Miles sings


to his partner to talk about any and everything, tell him anything but goodbye. During this song, I suddenly thought of the leaning man, Funky Don- nie Fritts. Sometimes Mile’s lyrics bring Fritts to mind.


“This Old Man” may be my favorite track


on the album. Tommy tells it like it is about grow- ing older without slowing down. Basically he sings about keeping busy with his life, “I don’t spend a lot of time looking back, I’ve still got a lot to prove.” Tell it, Tommy, Ironically, he follows it up with a tear in your beer country tune about closing in on the end of life, and things he wants to accomplish before the “Last Hoorah.” Another good one. “Guaranteed to Fit the Bill” rocks and “I’m


Over You kicks off with a Bakersfield Buck Owens vibe. Classic country sounds, served up with pedal steel and fiddle. There are 12 songs on the record, and every one of ‘em is well written and performed. Love it. The album closes with its title trick, “Ol’ Dude with an Attitude,” a hopping country autobiographical tune that is the perfect closer for the set. I’d sum it up by saying Tommy Miles is a


very talented songwriter, witty and fun, who can write from the heart just as easily as his funny bone. Huge shout out to the band he has assem- bled. as well as Tommy’s Production and the mastering of the one and only Jimmy Nutt. It’s a good ‘un.


-Michael Buffalo Smith 50Michael Buffalo Smith and Tommy Talton at the Douglass


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