Word: albums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Want To Go Home," the opening cut, is a hard-driving, almost mainstream rock piece, that Bromberg blasts out in a ballsy, bluesy voice. One of the few songs on the album he wrote, indeed, one of the only contemporary songs, "I Want To Go Home" is a humorous study in seventies paranoia...
...cuts on the album are devoted to updating traditional music. Although the band plays the medley on side one cleanly, and although the music sounds impressive, it is not on a par with the rest of the album. The transitions between pieces in the medley are not smooth, and the thematic connections are not clear enough to lend the the medley a sense of unity. The medley on side two, however, is a strong, well-planned cut with good transitions throughout. While the drums and electric bass prevent it from merely imitating Irish traditional music, the piece remains true...
...DIFFERENT VEIN, Bromberg creates a hybrid of dixie-land and rock around Gus Cannon's "Stealin'," producing a sound interesting enough to justify its appearence as yet another version of that frequently recorded rag. On this cut, as throughout the album, Bromberg holds himself back, never displaying the sheer virtuousity he has shown himself to be capable of. At the start of the song, for example, he offers only a few bars of tasty rag picking before drowning the guitar out in a melange of horns, mandolin, bass and drums. Although the absence of flash is somewhat disappointing, Bromberg...
...album as solidly creative as Reckless Abandon, Bromberg earns the right for one major lemon. From its lyrics to the muddy, lower-register background harmonies, "Child's Song" is clearly...
...high point of the album, a superfunky update of a thirties song called "Beware, Brother Beware," more than compensates, however. The lyrics, a warning to single men to be on the look-out for those women who are out to turn them into husbands, is a perfect vehicle for Bromberg's city-slick, street-wise voice. With a tight horn section and the funkiest of rhythm sections behind him, he warns the poor unsuspecting male...