VINTAGE TROUBLE - 1 HOPEFUL RD.
Over the
past few years, Vintage Trouble have wowed audiences across the globe by
opening for The Rolling Stones in London's Hyde Park, touring with legends like
The Who and AC/DC, and playing sold-out headline shows worldwide. Now, on their
first album for Blue Note Records, the Los Angeles-based foursome singer Ty
Taylor, guitarist Nalle Colt, bassist Rick Barrio Dill, and drummer Richard
Danielson channel the vitality and passion of their live show into a fresh and
urgent take on guitar-powered rhythm & blues. Produced by Blue Note
president and three-time Grammy Award-winner Don Was, 1 Hopeful Rd. finds
Vintage Trouble building off the groove-fueled sound that Yahoo! once painted
as ''James Brown singing lead for Led Zeppelin'' and blending blues, soul, and
riff-heavy rock & roll with joyfully gritty abandon. As heard on lead
single ''Run Like the River,'' 1 Hopeful Rd. matches Vintage Trouble s
emotional intensity with a raw yet sophisticated musicianship that's prompted
the New York Times to name the band modern-day answer to Otis Redding and BBC
Radio 6 to anoint them ''the heirs of rhythm and blues.'' ~ Concord Music
FOREIGN EXCHANGE - TALES FROM THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY
The deepest
work yet from Foreign Exchange – and as hard as it is for us to believe, a
record that unofficially kicks off the second decade of the one-time
transatlantic partnership of Nicolay and Phonte – which has evolved into a
bonafide indie soul supergroup with Zo!, Tamisha Waden and Carmen Rodgers!
Tales From The Land Of Milk And Honey is as full of life as anything we've
heard from them, and honestly, a record we'll be able to keep coming back to
for years. On the production front, Nicolay has found a way to pay homage to
the past half century of breezy soul and R&B, club grooves, bossa and more,
and distill it all into a fairly tight sound that belongs to FE+. Phonte is as
vocally charismatic on his cuts as ever, whether he's playing it straight, or
just having a little bit of fun – like when he's affecting a British accent on
"Asking For A Friend" – and the women's voices are never less than
beautiful, on both the lead vocal turns and the hooks. Includes "Milk And
Honey", "Work It To The Top", "Truce",
"Disappear", "Sevenths And Ninths", "Asking ForA
Friend", "Body", "As Fast As You Can", "Face In
The Reflection" and "Until The Dawn (Milk And Honey Pt
II)". ~ Dusty Groove
MARVIN GAYE - M.P.G.
Great late
60s work from Marvin Gaye – a pre-What's Going On set that still shows him
picking up some of the hipper, deeper themes bubbling under at Motown – a bit
of the heavier bass and politics of Norman Whitfield camp, touched with some of
the sweeter soul from earlier years! The mix is really great, and makes the
record a key transitional one in Gaye's years at Motown – a great hint of the
deeper styles to come, and proof that even in these earlier years, Marvin was
still capable of sounding plenty righteous! Titles include the hit "Too
Busy Thinking About My Baby", plus "That's The Way Love Is",
"The End Of Our Road", "Seek & You Shall Find",
"This Magic Moment", "It's A Bitter Pill To Swallow",
"I Got To Get To California", and "It Don't Take Much To Keep
Me". ~ Dusty Groove
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