The Sun Still Hasn't Set
I don’t intend to review from now on by simply referring to
previous reviews, but it could suffice here as it has done with my previous
posting. The long compound sentence defining West’s previous Unusual Suspects still mimes the
roll-out of what the Les does best, and this latest thunders and/or smoothes
out with heavy rock and blues. Opener Dyin’
Since The Day I Was Born sets out the strong stall, and second Busted, Disgusted or Dead has Johnny Winter
guesting some sweet slide, both still very much alive having survived whatever
disgusting travails along their similar ways. Third Fade Into You is a beautiful initially acoustic blues ballad, West’s
vocal growling confidently, and then erupting into band, orchestra and
scorching solo, a song West first heard, apparently, on the TV programme Nashville. Fifth Tales
of Woe is a beautiful confessional song, Leslie divesting honest
reflections on his past here and elsewhere on the album. Seventh Hatfield and
McCoy is a great chugging blues that struts and stomps and thuds and screams
and howls and – oh you know how it goes.......
I do like the overblown but great cover of When A Man Loves A Woman with Johnny Lang. Turbo-charged emotion.
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