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Robert Lighthouse - Drive Thru Love
This guy's got balls, I said to myself. And to be in the company of sacred monsters like Dr. Ross, Jimi Hendrix, Elmore James, Willie Dixon and Robert Johnson, on his first CD, he's got to ha [+]Il Blues Magazine
Robert Lighthouse - Drive Thru Love
This guy's got balls, I said to myself. And to be in the company of sacred monsters like Dr. Ross, Jimi Hendrix, Elmore James, Willie Dixon and Robert Johnson, on his first CD, he's got to have big ones. But, not satisfied with the collective tribute to the fathers of the blues, he spits out six hot pieces from the oven of his creative spirit. And I'll be damned, such "Blues" bread, I haven't eaten in a long time! And then when I read that 11 out of 12 songs were recorded live, I almost fainted. It seems impossible; its like he must have been preparing for years to record this CD. His guitar is powerful and hypnotic, and in the background, we hear unidentified people from City Blues, the harmonica, and every now and then a shout of anger in the microphone, which then melts into soft reassuring words of love. Enchanting romantic sounds from his guitar, together with such a clear, pure voice make up "She's The One I Love". This in contrast with the lively "Shake For Me" where the guitar and harmonica combine with unmentionable and obscene proposals to a big fat mama. Frankly, I have to say that a piece from Dr. Ross has always been missing in the past ... ...from the 'poor blues man faraway from home'. After hearing "Going To The River" and "Going Back South" I'm left breathless listening to the original "Drive-Through Love" - whether because of the narration which fills the clean breaks of the music, or because of the bloody harmonica that
accompanies the guitar, and cuts like an old-fashioned razor from the old barber shops.
The last four pieces are electrifying - only one done in the recording studio. Robert is accompanied by unknown musicians, all extremely high quality - particularly the three drummers: essential, precise and pumped just to the right level. In "Crossroads" you probably would expect to hear the typical sound slide, but instead you hardly hear it at all.
And it is followed by a torrid "Machine", sweating even through the speakers of my sound system, with so much change in tempo and a double finale. I won't talk about the disappointing "Riding Into the Sun", because I just can't keep all the emotion inside me after listening to "Voodoo Child". You hear people murm
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