Rating: 2/5
Review:
Pretty forgettable
I thought that an album by the man who wrote and performed in
Something In the Air by Thunderclap Newman would be pretty good.
Sadly, I was wrong.
Plainly, Speedy Keen
is a good musician and Previous Convictions starts quite well with
Old Fashioned Girl, but it goes downhill quite rapidly after that.
Keen’s original compositions are trite, almost nursery-rhyme
standard tunes with uninspiring arrangements and his pleasant but
inexpressive singing voice does nothing to help. The cover of
Somethin’ Else is bland and has none of the drive and charm of the
original, and Positively 4th Street is simply frightful.
A couple of instrumentals which feel like filler complete the mix and
it adds up to a pretty weak, forgettable album, I’m afraid.
I’m sorry to be so
critical, but this really does seem like another example of a very
good session musician/sideman demonstrating that he should stick to
the day job. I can’t recommend it.
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