With his chocolaty cool, soulful Memphis croon and sure sense of melody, Robert Cray has ... more
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Advantages: Great album, solos, melodies Disadvantages: None
and Barry Harwood. The band recorded two albums between 1980 and 1982 and then disbanded. The albums released were Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere and This Is the Way. Allen Collins contribution diminished for the second album and in 1983 a year after Rossington Collins disbanded he started The Allen Collins Band.
**Twenty**
In 1987 Lynyrd Skynyrd went on tour and four years later released the comeback album "1991" Six years after the new Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded their first album back Twenty was released to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Plane Crash. The band had recorded two studio albums since the reunion of Lynyrd Skynyrd and this album was recorded with the following line up.
Gary Rossington - Lead, rhythm, slide & acoustic guitars
Johnny Van Zant - lead vocals
Leon Wilkeson - bass
Ricky Medlocke - Lead, rhythm, slide, acoustic ...
Advantages: Fast paced easy read, funny, well written characters Disadvantages: Slow start, weak love interest
I have been a big fan of Sophie Kinsella for many years now, having first discovered her Shopaholic series and her stand alone books Can You Keep A Secret, Remember Me?, and The Undomestic Goddess. Kinsella has clearly conquered the chick-lit world and remains one of my favourite authors, but I find her stand alone books a bit hit and miss - although I enjoyed Can You Keep A Secret even more than the Shopaholic series, I found Remember Me and The Undomestic Goddess rather disappointing. That said, it was always a given when her new book, Twenties Girl, was released that I would be eager to read it.
When Lara Lington finds out her 105 year old Great Aunt Sadie has died it's the least of her worries - having recently been inexplicably dumped by her boyfriend Josh, and having just set up her own headhunting business with school friend ...
Twenties Girl ? Sophie Kinsella.......
Laura Linington's life is all the place when the news breaks of her great aunt Sadie's death. Laura's boyfriend, Josh, has made, what Laura thinks to be, a massive error in breaking off their two year relationship and her new working partnership with her best friend in a head hunting business is up in the air as her best friend has met a new man on holiday in Goa and doesn't appear to be returning any time soon. So when the ghost of her dead 105 year old great aunt appears at the funeral in the form of her in the 1920's Laura immediately puts it down to stress.
It seems however that Laura cannot shake off this stress as the ghost of Sadie Lancaster bullies her into stopping the funeral under suspicious death allegations. Laura's great aunt wants to find a necklace that belonged to her ...
British edition. A new album from Robert Cray is unlikely to contain any radical departures from his laid-back, blues-influenced R&B, sweetly stinging leads, and mellow, soulful singing. Yet Cray's records are almost always superbly executed and eminently listenable. Such is the case with 2005's TWENTY. The artist's second release for indie label Sanctuary features Cray doing what he does best with the help of a crack backing band. Rolling, punchy jams like "Does It Really Matter" and the loping, lock-step vibe of "I'm Walkin'" prove this unit's easy, appealing chemistry. Cray's blues is often criticized for being commercially oriented. The truth is that Cray's music is much closer to '60s-era soul and R&B than it is to traditional blues. Rather than restricting himself to a 1-4-5 blues formula, he crafts memorable pop tunes that sound like they might have come from the Stax/Volt offices circa 1968. The anti-war song "Poor Johnny" is a case in point, as is the driving "That Ain't Love" and the smoothly swinging "My Last Regret." In addition to his sterling talents as a guitarist and singer, then, and the sharp work of his band, it is Cray's tunesmithery that impresses on TWENTY. This album comes highly recommended to Cray enthusiasts, and to lovers of cool, '60s-flavored R&B.
Album Reviews
Rolling Stone (No. 975, p.76) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[C]ray's strongest album since [1986's] STRONG PERSUADER... " Mojo (p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[T]he record's ultimate success hinges on the truly effective title track..." Living Blues (pp.50-51) - "The four musicians achieve a rare balance between tightness and relaxation that is the result of many years together as a working band."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Poor Johnny
2.
That Ain't Love
3.
Does It Really Matter
4.
Fadin' Away
5.
My Last Regret
6.
It Doesn't Show
7.
I'm Walkin'
8.
Twenty
9.
I Know You Will
10.
Forgot To Be Your Lover
11.
Two Steps From The End
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