The Kyla Brox Band - Coming Home

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 57:36
Size: 131.9 MB
Styles: Electric blues, Contemporary Blues vocals
Year: 2009
Art: Front

[3:49] 1. She Knows
[3:54] 2. Coming Home
[3:46] 3. Do I Move You
[2:55] 4. It's On
[5:40] 5. Working On Your Love
[3:16] 6. Too Young To Care
[2:31] 7. Guilty
[4:09] 8. Won't Fit There
[3:44] 9. Stargazing
[3:44] 10. Just For Then
[3:56] 11. Things I'd Change
[3:16] 12. Keep On Criticising
[6:15] 13. It's Understood
[6:34] 14. Don't Change Horses

This realises the promise of Window by adding an extra ingredient: the groove. it's a groove that comes from constant work with an active working band. Saxophonist Tony Marshall and Marshall Gill, a guitarist from the BB King school of searing sweetness, fulfil most of the solo honours. Bassist Danny Blomeley and drummer Phil Considine are veterans of Victor's 'child slavery band'. And what a tight unit they are, personally and musically (groove triumphs over song on Won't Fit There). Twelve out of the 14 selections are Kyla co-writes or originate from within the Brox circle (Victor is responsible for Working On Your Love; incidentally, brother Sam is producer). Coming Home displays an empathetic Kyla, working out the work/life balance (She Knows) or her issues of self-doubt (Things I'd Change, Guilty), but also a tougher Kyla. This means that all the raunch is concentrated in one song, Do I Move You (a smouldering Nina Simone number), which actually intensifies the impact. The other cover, Don't Change Horses, is a real find. Rescued from the back-catalogue of seventies West Coast funksters Tower of Power, the song is a certified show-stopper, mixing real emotion (a plea for a second chance) with outrageous showmanship ("Giddy up, hi ho Silver…"). And, with the Blomeley/Considine rhythm team piling on the coal, it builds up a fine head of steam. If Don't Change Horses represents the zenith of the Kyla Brox Band, then Working On Your Love demonstrates the latent strength of the Kyla Brox Duo, with Kyla and Danny giving an object lesson in how less is more.

Coming Home

Mo' Albums...
◊ Esther Phillips - Confessin' The Blues
◊ Danny Kyle - Rag 'N' Bone Blues

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