Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The soundtrack of our life is a deeply individual and unique, we might have more than one play list, we could be listening to a whole variety of songs and special insightful tracks, we might even permit others to share in some of those moments where the guitar and the vocal capture the zeitgeist of personal interaction, but the final result is one that holds together what are as a person, as a distinctive, exceptional, irreplaceable human being.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
How you spend time when you forced to be apart from all that you love, all that deeply care for, can be enlightening, illuminating… cathartic, and whilst it is enough to survive, that is important to endure the single punishment of isolation, the fear of collective worry that comes in the shape of humanity’s damnation, to strive beyond those Quarantine Blues and produce art, to seek guidance and passion from a place outside of the normal parameters is to arguably deal a personal hand of favour to others, to give them a piece of your soul so that they have their own blues lessened.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Once more but with even greater certainty of what propelled Mike Zito to prominence, Live From The Top from 2009 is thankfully being re-released thanks to Gulf Coast Records and it is one that for fans of the St. Louis native that comes with pleasure and fascination stirred together to make up a musical feast that not many would have got to feast upon the first time round.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Revisiting an old lover is either a pleasure renewed, or the moment in which you might wonder what was the initial attraction which drove you into their arms and shower them with the virtue and kisses they demanded, which you were happy to supply with open heart and mind. The casual call from out of the Blue Room, the tingle of excitement, the fizz of the electricity that once melted your heart and brought a new feeling of passion to the soul,
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
The lifestyles of the rich and famous, the glitz and the sparkling glamour, it is, in the eyes of many, the way to be remembered, to have a good time, it is born perhaps out of jealousy, out of desperation even, it is the longing that sits buried in the heart of the human sea and one that grows with speed and unfulfilled desire; to have a First Class Life, they believe involves a greater degree of hedonism, perhaps bordering on the selfish and the unrepentant.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The world is on a knife edge, a relentless march to its own seemingly assured destruction, one that cannot arguably be stopped and one that has left eminent scientist Stephen Hawking to conclude there may be only a 1’000 years for Humanity to survive and for the planet to be rid of its gorging hosts; perhaps the best thing to do to at least stem the tide is for the population to look deep in its own soul and Make Blues Not War.
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No limits, that’s all you can ever truly hope for in life. To be able to live with the knowledge that all that you have done is all that you could physically do; that there was no quarter given, no hidden page left unread and sequel available as every possible plot point and character development had been written in to the life story. Records and music is like that also, except that where the blood sweat and tears of one album runs deep into the furthest recess of the heart, there is always room for more of the same, or even a deviation from the artistic norm, of a second “difficult” album.
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There are expectations that have to be met when listening to a live album. The first is that the sound recreated on a stage, possibly many hundreds of miles from wherever you are fortunate enough to actually listen to the gig, has to be able to make the imagination run riot, to revel in the flow and thrust of the guitar, to feel the sweat run down your neck in anticipation and to envisage the person infront of you in the audience nervously sweating along with you. The taste of the gig has to be captured just right, else it is lost and abandoned like an errant Victorian child left at the Poor House.