'One Good Reason' (is it a mini album or is it an EP?) lets you 'ave it Dirty Aces style with five pretty cookin' tracks that tempt and invigorate.
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'One Good Reason' (is it a mini album or is it an EP?) lets you 'ave it Dirty Aces style with five pretty cookin' tracks that tempt and invigorate.
The first thing that jumped out at me when I heard this EP was its simplistic but simmerin' groove; unusually, by today's standards, The Dirty Aces haven't been tempted into the world of big productions, digital enhancement and studio jiggery-pokery - they play here, I guess, much as they do in the live scenario, with a raw but raunchy drive that's nicely sweet and open but coolly honest. The business-like rhythm section of Paul Bisson (bass) and Tim Bryon (drums) lays down a superbly weighted but slickly sympathetic backdrop for the free-flowin' guitar of Filip Kozlowski to succinctly but heartily weave its gritty magic as Giles Robson sucks-and-blows his 'golden' harp with true-blue effortless perfection in between his no-fuss, down-home vocalisation. It's genuine, it's earthy, hey, it's the blues!
The sound these guys have gone for here reminds me very much of the debut album from Canned Heat; blues reality, blues with feeling - grimy blues with all the effort being filtered into the heart and soul of each track rather than being used to feed a big ego or a wayward spirit - nice sound, nice feel!
I admire this outfit for keepin' it real - there's no frills, no big ego's, no eccentricities - just good, wholesome blues played with controlled passion and perfection. The Dirty Aces show that they can play, they show they can write and they sure show they can feel the blues. 'One Good Reason' by The Dirty Aces is the blues and the blues alone. Good work from a very workmanlike band - great promo material - and well worth a listen if the blues is your bag, blues brother.
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