Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
The general public in Britain might not be aware of their names now but there should be no doubting that by the end of the year the three women who make the album Girls With Guitars sound so rock and roll, so upbeat Blues, that you’d expect a complaint to be lodged somewhere in Tennessee about unlawful unions, the marriage and the meeting of minds with none of the sometimes maddening sadness that goes hand in hand with such clashes.
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A faith can come and go; it can be lost, misplaced or even denounced, but even the biggest denouncers still retain an element in all that they do. It doesn’t have to be a faith in whichever deity is current flavour of the month, or even in a person or humanity as a whole or in something, a faith gets shaken but if treated gently and with caution, that faith can be restored.
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For many a band, home is perhaps somewhere only where you dump your stuff and put a fresh change of clothes into a bag before heading off onto the road again. The road, whether it’s a journey from Hell on the M6, somewhere between Bicester and Scotland or one of those cross-country runs underneath the open skies of the North American highway, can be all consuming and in the end nowhere feels native, everywhere feels as though you could settle down and find love; it is in the end the sign of the murky waters that goes with having No Fixed Address.
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It is perhaps Humanity’s greatest failing that we see something or a race of people that we don’t understand and believe ourselves to better cultured and educated than they ever could be or arguably have the right to be. It is a systematic failing, a supreme moment of arrogance that belittles us all. It makes us feel superior when we don’t have the right, an uncivilised civility that shows its self arguably more in the world of art than any other.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
They are rightly lauded as two of the finest of their generation. Roger Daltrey and Wilko Johnson are not just iconic, they are recognised as culturally eminent and at times, depending on what newspaper/magazine or ill-informed comments you decide to listen to, as equally famous and infamous as two ambassadors of British music can be.
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British Progressive Rock has been in such a rude state of health of late that it hardly seems a surprise when another group of musicians go down the long and ethereal note filled road. The genre has not reached the awful state of affairs that saw it nearly die a bloated thousand deaths in the 1970s, thankfully there is more than enough room in the 21st Century for well-worked, encouraging words of wisdom from the world of Prog.
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There is no doubting that Sir Paul McCartney is one of Liverpool’s and indeed the U.K.’s favourite sons. The songs he co-wrote with John Lennon has rightly passed down generation after generation of music lovers to the point where surely at any point in time around the world a song he wrote, whether with the Beatles or his lengthy solo career, a song he lovingly crafted and put together, is being played on a radio station, in a Juke Box or on a record or C.D. player with reverence.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10
Sometimes all you want from an album is to have a big stupid smile of unrepentant joy plastered all over what is otherwise could be a thoughtful and sensible face.
Music is not just there to make you think, reflect and contemplate the meaning behind the songs, sometimes it is more than enough to just really understand that what we are here for ultimately is too have a bit of fun and entertain ourselves without ever hurting anyone or anything else. For The BossHoss and their latest album, God Loves Cowboys, this is Country Rock with an outrageous smile and the knowing nod to an era when a lyric could raise a grin without going down the endless road of over sexualisation or resorting to outdated stereotyping.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10
There is the sound of the low down and dirty, the irresponsibility of youth that we all secretly adore as they go out with guns blazing and an attitude in which once past a certain age can wither and die like a leaf under-nourished by the autumn sun.
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Arguably the most seductive of sounds, aside from an engrossing violin being played under a dimly lit street lamp as it serenades a lover from the tender arms of Morpheus, is that of the guitar. The finally polished wood in tune with a good set of fingers and a lung busting pocket of air can sweep a person off their feet and lead them down a road to expectant, gratified glee. In the hands of a master it’s like being kissed by an angel who has just found out that life is meant to be lived and not just waiting on a command, in the hands of Javier Vargas and the Vargas Blues Band it s like finding out that angel has been living next door for years and has had a crush on you forever.