Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * * *

History is normally something that we learn and digest, not feel. We spend our time picking over facts, debating on the finer points of the information. We forego, we ignore the living sentiment that comes from feeling the heartbeat that comes down the metaphorical downstream and the price we have paid for such disregard is that empathy for another’s thoughts and story is downgraded, seen as nothing more than a quick narration to be stored but never understood.

History is a fast flowing stream of information, it is not viewed the same upstream as it is at the mouth of the river, and for Marco Cinelli and Danny Del Toro, history is where the emotions truly lay and in their new album Delta Overflowin’, it is the moment where history breathes and breaks the banks of ignorance completely.

The subtly of the album is such that the listener cannot but help to be enveloped by the sense of history that the pair open with, the sense of the majestic, a strength of purpose and the proposal that is sweet and beautiful is overwhelming. As the songs progress through the Blues, the spirituality of the Ragtime experience, and the generous reminisce that evokes the days of the days of the dusty vinyl collection, the atmosphere is glowing in history’s present day image.

An album that stirs such memories is to be cherished, treated perhaps not just a record of events for appearances sake, but a motion to keep life sacred, our own tango with Time relevant.

In songs such as I Don’t Know What Makes You Love Me So, Freight Train, 3 Hours A Night, For All My Sins, Praise Your Mother and Winter Obstruction Blues, Marco Cinelli and Danny Del Toro jump into the river of memories and remove the dam that blocks the flow of information and descriptive chronicles piece by piece, until the Delta cannot but help overflow the shoreline.

An enormously satisfying album, one that encompasses the realms and the strands of the genre with absolute beauty and sincerity.

Ian D. Hall