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Southside Johnny and The Asbury Jukes > Pills and Ammo Floating World Records Era da
Better Days del 1991 che Southside Johnny non faceva un disco così forte, determinato, diretto. Un disco that when he went back to its former glory with
Jukes was the vulgar side, and fiery R & B music of the Jersey Shore. Better Days
produced by Little Steven with the active participation of some of Springsteen and the E-Streeters still remember today as a hard rock rather rich and beautiful songs in the blues el'affondo time later
Messin 'With The Blues of 2000 from Garry Tallent had the merit to show a more intimate side of Soulman and night in New Jersey.
Pills and Ammo skillfully synthesizes those two albums and modernity on the one hand the exuberant rock-soul arrembante Lyon shouted with the uvula burned dall'whiskey and amplified by a horn section that combines sound Stax and Muscle Shoals horns, on the other hand, the veins and the guitar blues of Bobby Bandiera and Andy York (Mellencamp's guitarist) disabled when putting in the empty spaces left by the uproar of Asbury fiatistica Jukes. The result is a mixture of incandescent rock, soul and blues in the service of songs that is perfectly successful in their aim to entertain, drink, dance, sweat, soften like a revue of some big bands of the forties and fifties. Mirabile
production
Lyon and pianist Jeff Kazee
that with careful measurement and elegance can do
Pills and Ammo a disc overflowing with sounds and terse musical arrangements, choreography and then bolsa nothing but proof that you can make a disk with eleven musicians and choir singers, including the irrepressible
Lisa Fischer (Stones and Tina Turner) without stifling the songs. All of which are of excellent workmanship, the result of collaboration between Lyon and Kazee.
Harder Than It Looks opens the festival and it is now clear that there are no frictions between the breath and the whole sound of the trumpet and sax, the voice of Southside, you hear a rhythm section and guitars, is impressive and overwhelming. Soul-rock
first class as
Cross That Line where the guitars and singers screaming vulgarity of the Stones and the plan memphisiana is an orgy. Less than
orchestra and combo
Woke Up This Morning blues cha know Chess Records in the harmonious with the wind blowing Southside of Chicago and Andy York's slide answers the Delta blues. What I had learned in Southside Messin 'With The Blues is exposed here in all its beauty caustic. If
Lead Me On exposes the surrender of the man who asks his beloved second chance and is a sweet love song tones,
Heartbreak City is clean, dirty, electric R & B with a guitar riffs to the murderess
Primal Scream and voices in the grip of madness of the city. Dollars, donne, strade e peccati. Punk-R&B rabbioso e duro prima della calda e malinconica
Strange Strange Feeling . Qui gi strumenti sono puliti, mixati con grande amore e cura, la voce è confidenziale mentre è istrionica nella ironica
Umbrella In My Drink dove c’è un duetto con Gary U.S Bonds e il mood è quello di uno sbilenco, allegro e bislacco New Orleans sound shakerato dixieland.
One More Night To Rock è un rockaccio diretto e tirato a mille, con i fiati indemoniati e l’armonica che si sposa con la voce di Lisa Fisher in un torrido R&B che piacerebbe sia a Jagger che a Richards.
Chiudono le danze
A Place Where I Can’t Be Found a ballad style, Van Morrison, Keep On Moving fireworks
a jump in the 50's Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry and
Thank You ideal and sensitive end of the disc.
Pills and Ammo is a hard tattooed into the DNA of Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes her but not turned nostalgically to the past while respecting the complete genealogy of rock 'n' roll and R & B, rather shows that Southside Johnny know yet unexpectedly surprising in that the border between soul and rock, which now has few adherents.
Mauro Zambellini October 2010
