Marc Ford – Weary & Wired (Provogue Records).
Former lead guitarist of The Black Crowes decided to record this second solo album after playing some gigs with three former bandmates from his previous band, blues rockers Burning Tree. The raucous opener, Featherweight Dreamland, is a great start to the album and is quickly followed by Don’t Come Around, a blues influenced rocker with Ford’s fuzzed guitar adding to the overall noise. Tom Petty influences, a theme that will resurface later, appear on It’ll Be Over Soon with aggressive guitars to match. Dirty Girl follows in the same mould, good old Southern Rock with an authentic drawl. The Other Side is more of the same and long may it continue. 1000 Ways is swaggering blues rock with excellent guitar as with those that have gone before. There are some Neil Young influences on Smoke Signals and this would rival most of the great mans epics.
Greazy Chicken has a funky, sleazy beat and Ford gets into the groove. The slide guitar on this instrumental is worth a mention as are the horns. Currents is the slowest track so far and takes you away into dreamland. His voice normally takes second place to his guitar but comes to the fore here. The guitar this time has to make do with being a laconic, anthemic co-star. Just Take The Money is storming, funky rock and is followed by Medicine Time which is more of the same with a strong guitar solo. He’s not just about high octane levels and Same Thing shows he can play slow songs too. This ponderous, Willie Dixon penned blues has Ford’s guitar playing reaching new levels on this 8-minute epic. Bye Bye Suzy has a New Orleans vibe with superb guitar and horns on this happy instrumental. He finishes with The Big Callback, a Chuck Berry throwback and a superb way to end proceedings. There is certainly life after The Black Crowes.
http://www.marcford.com/
http://www.provoguerecords.com/
David Blue.
Former lead guitarist of The Black Crowes decided to record this second solo album after playing some gigs with three former bandmates from his previous band, blues rockers Burning Tree. The raucous opener, Featherweight Dreamland, is a great start to the album and is quickly followed by Don’t Come Around, a blues influenced rocker with Ford’s fuzzed guitar adding to the overall noise. Tom Petty influences, a theme that will resurface later, appear on It’ll Be Over Soon with aggressive guitars to match. Dirty Girl follows in the same mould, good old Southern Rock with an authentic drawl. The Other Side is more of the same and long may it continue. 1000 Ways is swaggering blues rock with excellent guitar as with those that have gone before. There are some Neil Young influences on Smoke Signals and this would rival most of the great mans epics.
Greazy Chicken has a funky, sleazy beat and Ford gets into the groove. The slide guitar on this instrumental is worth a mention as are the horns. Currents is the slowest track so far and takes you away into dreamland. His voice normally takes second place to his guitar but comes to the fore here. The guitar this time has to make do with being a laconic, anthemic co-star. Just Take The Money is storming, funky rock and is followed by Medicine Time which is more of the same with a strong guitar solo. He’s not just about high octane levels and Same Thing shows he can play slow songs too. This ponderous, Willie Dixon penned blues has Ford’s guitar playing reaching new levels on this 8-minute epic. Bye Bye Suzy has a New Orleans vibe with superb guitar and horns on this happy instrumental. He finishes with The Big Callback, a Chuck Berry throwback and a superb way to end proceedings. There is certainly life after The Black Crowes.
http://www.marcford.com/
http://www.provoguerecords.com/
David Blue.
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