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Review: 'Adventures In Bluesland'
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-  Label: 'World Wide Vibe Records'
-  Genre: 'Blues' -  Release Date: '14.4.15.'-  Catalogue No: 'WWV'

Our Rating:
This is Sort of Adventures In Blueslands second album, sort of as the first one was released as The Last Phil Gammage solo album which was called Adventures In Bluesland. As the band he had for that album have now played lots of gigs up and down the east coast of the USA this time around it's a band album.

It does sound similar to that album which is no bad thing and opens with a nice slow version of the classic One Kind Favor or as it's often known See That My Grave Is Kept Clean that is full of the feeling and emotion needed to make this song work as if it's being played in Twin Peaks or Wayward Pines.

Creepy In The Woods seems to have the Houndog Taylor guitar sound just about right but slightly slowed down and with a good spooky song about being out in the woods at night.

Float And Sting sounds like it could be a tribute to Muhammed Ali in his prime and has some great organ and Saxophone a very cool sounding song indeed.

I love the very laid back drumming on Drifting as well as that laid back sax sound perfect for sitting down with a long drink on a hot summers night. It sounds like it could have been recorded for Dot records back in their heyday. So chill out and light up a nice cigar and sip away as you enjoy the sound enveloping you.

They pick up the pace a bit on Booze Blues & New Tattoos that could almost be a George Thoroughgood re-working of an old blues tune but with Phil Gammages honeyed tones on this great blues belter.

Watch The Traffic Flow is so slow and easy like they are in the swamplands rather than watching traffic as he pretty much tells his baby to go or stay just leave him be. It's about as laid back as you can get. It could almost be Sonny Terry on the Harmonica.
Our Lucky day is a stripped back 50's style blues rock song with some really good harmonica blowing through it this is a less torrid Lucky Day than the one Angry Johnny & The Killbillies put out a few years ago.

Feel The Music is a Sax led treat of a blues song all laid back bonhomie and plenty of stylish flourishes. The albums second cover Last Kind Word Blues is nicely strummed acoustic guitar blues and with Phil's voice full of emotion so that you know he means every last word he's singing.

It's no surprise that Walk On the Beach is a cool strolling blues song with the sort of back beat from Kevin Tooley that you could easily march in time too as well as some stellar guitar parts a proper old school Rhythm and Booze blues song.

The album closes with the gentle beguiling Come to Me it's almost a seduction routine but not quite a very cool end to a nice generally laid back blues album.

Find out more at www.adventuresinbluesland.com
  author: simonovitch

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