Rating: 3/5
Review:
Disappointing material
I was really looking forward to this album. Eric Bibb is an excellent singer and
musician, and the great Danny Thompson is one of my musical heroes so I was
expecting the collaboration between them to be something really special. Sadly, it isn't really. The playing and singing is excellent, but I
have to say that the material taken together isn't great.
The sound throughout this album is lovely. Eric's singing is, as always, beautifully
soulful and evocative and the backing musicians including Thompson are very
fine, so there's an atmospheric, classy feel to the whole thing. For the first track or two I thought this
might be as good as I'd hoped, but it declined into a nice but undistinguished
sameyness pretty quickly. The songs are
almost all about Good Lovin' Gone Good and My Baby Done Stayed With Me, which
actually makes a pleasant change – for a while.
The trouble is, it becomes a bit saccharine in feel after a short while
and really needs something with a bit more edge to give it some contrast and
spice. To be honest, I just keep getting
a bit bored and drifting off when I listen to much of this at once.
I'm sorry to be critical of artists whom I like and respect
greatly, but that's my honest view.
There's nothing wrong with the album as such and the musicianship is
very good, but as a listenable programme it doesn't really work for me.
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