Tuesday, June 14, 2016

George Stephen Kelly - The Power, The Glory & The Monkey Time

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 39:48
Size: 91.1 MB
Styles: Modern electric blues
Year: 2016
Art: Front

[4:20] 1. My Love's Enough
[3:23] 2. Morning After Pill
[3:37] 3. My Forever, Your Always
[4:37] 4. Sisyphus Blues
[3:35] 5. Too Much Month At The End Of The Money
[3:47] 6. Don't Let The Green Grass Fool You
[3:50] 7. Bad Whiskey
[3:44] 8. Nice Ride
[3:53] 9. Runnin' Blue
[5:00] 10. Just Because You're Paranoid

George Stephen Kelly is based in Detroit and this album is a horn-driven delight with plenty of fine playing and some idiosyncratic original songs alongside two solid covers. George wrote the songs, handles all lead vocals and plays guitar throughout with a large cast of Detroit sidemen including the return to recording of Motor City Josh (Ford) who engineered the sessions and plays some guitar. Michael Jenkins also plays guitar, bass duties are split between Alex Lyon and Ryland Kelly (who also contributes piano and guitar to one track), drums between Antonio Johnson and Todd Glass, keys between Kevin Tubbs and Chris Codish. The horns appear on seven tracks with De’Sean Jones and Marcus Elliot on sax and John Douglas on trumpet. Caleb Ford (Josh’s brother) adds backing vocals to one track.

This is an impressive set of sometimes unusual songs that will appeal to those who enjoy the soulful end of the blues. This reviewer certainly enjoyed listening to the disc and can recommend it to others. ~John Mitchell

The Power, The Glory & The Monkey Time

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