Reinventing the Wheel
- 艺人
- Asleep at the Wheel
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Mega Force
- 发行时间
- 2007年03月20日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by Thom Jurek
What are you gonna say about Ray Benson and Asleep at the Wheel? Everything they've recorded is inspired. It's true that for the last 12-15 years they've been making lots of live and tribute kinds of records, but even when they record a &new& one as Benson boasts on the back sleeve, they still sound like a rollicking, reeling, good-time swaggering Texas-style Western swing band. The lineup changes, and changes, and changes to be sure, but because of Benson's stubborn reliance on the form, the group keeps a very definite sound. This new set underscores that case in spades and all one has to do is listen to the cover of Mose Allison's great jump tune &Your Mind Is on Vacation.& Allison, being a son of the Deep South himself (Mississippi) may never have imagined his tune this way, but it's easy to imagine him smiling and swinging along to it, or thinking up a smoking little piano solo, when he hears it. The same goes for Louis Jordan's &Saturday Night Fish Fry.& There is one anomaly here, though, and it's the album's closer, a beautiful straight honky tonk version of Guy Clark's &The Cape.& Benson pours real emotion into it while keeping Clark's phrasing nearly identical. There are also a couple of Tommy Duncan numbers here, and Fred Rose's stomper &The Devil Ain't Lazy,& which could have been covered by Louis Jordan with a saxophone playing the steel solo, plus a couple of originals by Benson. It all adds up to a fine effort by Asleep at the Wheel. This band may be an institution, but they still have inspiration, chops, and hardcore swing in spades to dish out to listeners.
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