Hot Streak the Dogs' Second Album Combines Blue-Eyed Soul

extra Blues” is a showstopper and EXTRA the Pink-Floyd-flavored “One Of These Days” is stellar. – RA Imaginatively produced and together) was brilliant. In fact, THE WINERY DogS thoroughly entertaining. – DP it’s a shame he wasn’t used Hot Streak on more than two songs and The Dogs’ second album utilized more on those. A solo combines blue-eyed soul, heavy would’ve been perfect. – DF rock, memorable hooks, and GLEN CampbEll lightning-fast licks. Billy Shee- British Live Performance Series han, Richie Kotzen, and Mike Given his public battle with Portnoy deliver prodigious talent, Sam BUtlER Alzheimer’s, it’s no surprise that never forgetting that it’s all Raise Your Hands! vintage Campbell is surfacing. about the song and the groove. With backing by Sacred This well-recorded 1990 concert “Oblivion” and “Think It Over” are Steel virtuoso Roosevelt Collier JOE LOUIS WalKER from Doncaster, England, is standout tracks accompanied by and a stellar rhythm section, Everybody Wants A Piece largely a hits recital. He offers well-crafted funk-edged tunes former Blind Boys of Alabama Bay Area bluesman Walker sharp amplified solos on the ’65 with blistering guitar solos. – OJ guitarman Butler offers up his blurs the lines between blues, Lefty Frizzell hit “She’s Gone, solo debut playing spirited – and rock, and soul. Universal themes, Gone, Gone,” “On A Good Night,” blues-drenched – takes of tunes grit, and multifaceted guitar and “Walkin’ In The Sun.” On penned by secular songwriters chops permeate impassioned “Highwayman” and “Streets like Bruce Springsteen, Eric songs. Rock is given resonance Of London,” he relies only on Clapton, U2, and more. – MD with soul-stirring vocals and irre- his Ovation acoustic. – RK futable blues cred. “Witchcraft,” THE ANDY T-NICK NIXON BAND “Wade In The Water,” and “Gos- Numbers Man pel Blues” are all powerful. – OJ Big-voiced Nixon sings and Talamantez (“T”) plays stinging guitar, with producer Anson Funderburgh lending CloUD OVER JUPITER JIMI HENDRIX six-string to four cuts and Jupiter Rising: 5th Mass Freedom2: Atlanta calling in friends like harpist Kim From The Sun Pop Festival 1970 Wilson and the Texas Horns. Progressive rockers Michele MItcH WoodS’ CLUB 88 This late concert was released The set of originals sprinkled and Jerry King lead a talented Jammin’ On The High Cs on the Stages box-set but now with covers by Gatemouth ensemble on an interstellar jour- After Mitch Woods decided stands alone with welcome Brown and Eugene Church and ney into the far reaches of hu- to liven up the vacant piano remastering enhancing Jimi’s a dash of zydeco add up to man consciousness. Ambitious bar on the Legendary Rhythm tone the way he likely would one rockin’ blues party. – DF compositions explore the chasm & Blues Cruise, it became a have wanted. From “Red House” between sci-fi, psychedelia, regular feature, with other acts to “Voodoo Child (Slight Return),” and horror. Mellotrons, violins, invariably sitting in. This live it’s a greatest-hits fest. – MD flutes, and mellifluous vocals are collection puts you right on the intertwined with upper-echelon ship, as Woods’ lively boogie guitar work by Richie Castel- and New Orleans 88s and vocals lano and Pete Prown. – OJ are joined by guitarists Lucky Scott CRAWFORD Peterson, Tommy Castro, Coco AND JIM SaaH Montoya, and others. – DF Salad Days: A Decade of Punk THE PETERSON BRotHERS in Washington, D.C. (1980-90) The Peterson Brothers The definitive document of the Guitarist Glenn Peterson, 1980s’ most culturally, politi- Jr., and bassist brother Alex cally, and sonically fascinating ElVIS PRESLEY WITH THE RoYal were sitting in at Antone’s in music scene. Dischord label PHILHARmoNIC ORCHESTRA Austin when they were mere founders and Minor Threat If I Can Dream DUdlEY TAFT adolescents. Though still in their bandmates Ian MacKaye and This is one of the better Skin And Bones teens, their debut CD shows Jeff Nelson understandably posthumous “jams,” albeit ironic Taft is a blues rocker out real maturity. They lend their get a lot of talking-head time, since Elvis never toured England. of the Southern school with own stamp to soul blues, jump, but there’s plenty of good info Some arrangements are a tad deadly guitar playing that put Bobby Bland’s “I Wouldn’t Treat and interviews giving voice busy, but the addition of Duane him a head above the run of A Dog,” and even “Amazing to the likes of Bad Brains, Eddy (a Presley contemporary, the mill. His cover of Johnny Grace,” featuring Alex’ violin. Scream, Fugazi, and many more. though they never recorded Winter’s “Leland Mississippi Definitely an act to watch. – DF February 2016 131 VINTAGE GUITAR.

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