Rating: 5/5
Review:
Hugely enjoyable
There’s nothing very original on Can U Cook?; the opener, Hate Da
Winter is straightforward, hard-drivin’ bottleneck blues, Last
Rodeo wouldn’t sound out of place on an early Bob Dylan album, Down
De Road has more than a whiff of Tony Joe White about it and so
on...but it all sounds really good and is hugely enjoyable. There’s
a right old mixture of styles here and Steve nails them all, I think.
As always, there’s no pretension and often a slight roughness
which conceals real skill, a great ability to give a song soul and
meaning and just a touch of class, somehow.
I really like can U
Cook? I wasn’t bonkers about Keepin' The Horse Between Me And The
Ground, but I think this is a return to form. There’s variety and
class enough to make this an album to listen to a lot of times and
still get plenty out of. Warmly recommended.
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