Walter Trout - Broken
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
It gets rather difficult, in the contemporary music scene, to find an artist with a career span of 50-plus years and 30 albums recorded as a solo artist, still willing to work as hard as the legendary Blues/Rock guitarist and singer/songwriter Walter Trout does on each and every record.
Unanimously considered by the music press and Trout's fellow colleague artists as one of the most gifted and talented torchbearers of Blues/Rock of this generation, there is quite nobody like the American artist, in this genre, able to deliver bodies of work of such imperious emotional intensity and enormous creative form, just as Trout has done again on his brand new album, called Broken.
Today Was Yesterday - Today Was Yesterday
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- Written by: Giovanni "Gio" Pilato
For who truly loves music, it's always a joy to see new inspired musical projects created by artists that perhaps, in the last three decades, have worked mostly behind the scenes in many bands, often being the real bone machine of said bands and now getting together creating something that sums their years of experiences in the business, allowing them, at the same time, also to apply their own personal spin and vision on the way they feel and see music in 2024.
Today Was Yesterday is one of those fine projects, born from the will of two multi-instrumentalists like singer/songwriter, bassist, guitarist, pianist and programmer Angelo Barbera and powerhouse drummer, percussionist and programmer Ty Dennis, with the purpose to cross over the boundaries of what is currently considered contemporary Progressive Rock, by expanding its overall sound through the application of layers of Funk, New-Age and Synth-Wave added to what is seen as the standard sound structure of Prog-Rock, as a genre.
JJ Grey & The Mofro - Olustee
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It's so important to have something meaningful to say, in the current music industry, where often the urgency of "having" to release a new album to make the fans happy as fast as possible, it may result as a counterproductive kind of a move, for an artist.
JJ Grey & The Mofro have undoubtedly not a problem with that, because they know that quality always pays dividends, no matter when they decide to make another album. Although it might have taken almost a decade, for the Florida-based collective, to release a new record of a certain high standard that could aptly follow the magnitude of a record like their 2015 Ol' Glory, that time has not been wasted in vain at all by the JJ Grey & The Mofro, given the excellent outcome.