Delta Moon –Clear Blue Flame (Jumping Jack Records).
It’s two years since Delta Moon’s last album and Clear Blue Flame has been much anticipated. The eponymous title track opens proceedings and it is rootsy & gutsy with a whisky stained vocal – classic Americana. Blind Spot is blues tinged roots with beefy slide guitar. The only thing missing is the vocals of Kristin Markiton from the last album, Howlin’. In fact, the band has changed dramatically since that 2005 album and they are now essentially a vehicle for Tom Gray and Mark Johnson with Ted Pecchio on bass and Tyler Greenwell on drums as their main backing. Money Changes Everything has more than a nod to Bruce Springsteen and John Hiatt. It’s not a cover (written by Gray) but it does sound so familiar. Gray could be called a Southern Boss! The addition of fiddle gives this a bayou feel. Trouble In Home is the bluesiest track so far. Excellent slide makes this grinder a favourite. Jessie Mae is another that could be a cover, its sound being so authentic. They stay in the blues zone for this rocker which is driven by the rhythm section and underpinned by the guitars of Gray and Johnson.
Cool Your Jets continues with the same vocalist and is another blues flecked rocker. The band revolves around the slide guitar and they produce no nonsense music. Life’s A Song has good harmony and is blues rock of high calibre. This is one track where the dual guitars get to rip it up. Stranger In My Hometown is a rootsy blues with mandoguitar and laid back slide -- a surprising favourite. Lap Dog is a grinding blues with some of the best guitar work of the album. I’m A Witness is hard to compartmentalise but I’d say middle of the road rock with obligatory slide. The only cover on the album, Mississippi Fred McDowell’s You Done Told Everybody is an acoustic blues with high class slide from Gray and Johnson. Music as it should be –raw and honest.
http://www.jumpingjackrecords.com/
http://www.deltamoon.com/
David Blue.
It’s two years since Delta Moon’s last album and Clear Blue Flame has been much anticipated. The eponymous title track opens proceedings and it is rootsy & gutsy with a whisky stained vocal – classic Americana. Blind Spot is blues tinged roots with beefy slide guitar. The only thing missing is the vocals of Kristin Markiton from the last album, Howlin’. In fact, the band has changed dramatically since that 2005 album and they are now essentially a vehicle for Tom Gray and Mark Johnson with Ted Pecchio on bass and Tyler Greenwell on drums as their main backing. Money Changes Everything has more than a nod to Bruce Springsteen and John Hiatt. It’s not a cover (written by Gray) but it does sound so familiar. Gray could be called a Southern Boss! The addition of fiddle gives this a bayou feel. Trouble In Home is the bluesiest track so far. Excellent slide makes this grinder a favourite. Jessie Mae is another that could be a cover, its sound being so authentic. They stay in the blues zone for this rocker which is driven by the rhythm section and underpinned by the guitars of Gray and Johnson.
Cool Your Jets continues with the same vocalist and is another blues flecked rocker. The band revolves around the slide guitar and they produce no nonsense music. Life’s A Song has good harmony and is blues rock of high calibre. This is one track where the dual guitars get to rip it up. Stranger In My Hometown is a rootsy blues with mandoguitar and laid back slide -- a surprising favourite. Lap Dog is a grinding blues with some of the best guitar work of the album. I’m A Witness is hard to compartmentalise but I’d say middle of the road rock with obligatory slide. The only cover on the album, Mississippi Fred McDowell’s You Done Told Everybody is an acoustic blues with high class slide from Gray and Johnson. Music as it should be –raw and honest.
http://www.jumpingjackrecords.com/
http://www.deltamoon.com/
David Blue.
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