The Mojo Gurus - Gone

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 58:33
Size: 134.1 MB
Styles: Rock N Roll, R&B
Year: 2017
Art: Front

[1:01] 1. Real Gone Groove, Pt. 1
[3:36] 2. Love Somebody
[4:18] 3. Fifty Miles
[4:20] 4. All I Do Is Cry
[5:28] 5. Monkey
[4:00] 6. Busted
[3:47] 7. What's Wrong With You
[4:28] 8. Two Smokin' Barrels
[5:56] 9. Never Met A Girl Like You Before
[3:03] 10. She's Got It All
[3:20] 11. Roll With Me Sister
[0:26] 12. Prelude To Light
[6:29] 13. Step Into The Light
[4:16] 14. (We're All Goin') Straight To Hell
[1:05] 15. Real Gone Groove, Pt. 2
[2:52] 16. Diddie Wa Diddie (Bonus Track)

Kevin Steele - Vocals, Harmonica; Doc Lovett - Guitar, Vocals; Vinnie Granese - Bass, Vocals; Sean Doyle - Drums, Vocals.

The argument has been made that rock 'n' roll is dead. Well, if it is, The Mojo Gurus have refused to attend the funeral. These four guys from the Tampa Bay area of Florida play as if the burden of saving the genre lay squarely upon their shoulders.

Led by singer/songwriter Kevin Steele, the Gurus come off as determined to remind us of something too many people have forgotten... the spirit in which rock 'n' roll was originally intended. Shake 'em on down! Backed by Doc Lovett's rhythm and booze guitar riffs, Vinnie Granese's thick-and-black-as-Mississippi-Delta-mud bass runs and Sean Doyle’s cannon shot voodoo drum beats, The Mojo Gurus perform real deal rock 'n' roll with enough strut and swagger to make most of today's flavor of the month bands pale in comparison.

Gone

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The Mojo Gurus - Who Asked Ya?

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 53:25
Size: 122.3 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:03] 1. Where You Hidin' Your Love
[2:47] 2. Hoodoo Man
[5:16] 3. Devil To Pay
[4:34] 4. No Damn Good
[2:53] 5. Someone Else Will
[5:59] 6. Foolish Boy
[3:20] 7. Bad Attitude
[3:08] 8. Bandito
[3:49] 9. Wha' D' Ya Want From Me
[2:38] 10. Not That Much
[5:08] 11. The Last Rock 'n' Roll Show
[3:25] 12. C'mon Over To My House
[3:33] 13. Way Over My Head
[3:44] 14. I've Seen Better Days

Once upon a time, rock was rock. In the days before popular music fell prey to market segmentation, the catch-all term of rock conjured – at least to some extent – a kind of music that was played (usually) by men who possessed an onstage demeanor and attitude that said “we’re here to rock.” Sometimes it didn’t say much more than that. And sometimes – oftentimes, in fact – that was enough. Nobody really looked to Aerosmith or Van Halen (or Led Zeppelin, for that matter) for great statements about the human condition. The songs expressed sentiments no deeper than, say, “ I Can’t Drive 55.”

That kind of music seems in short supply in 2014. Instead we have mope-rock, wherein the vocalists don’t look the audience in the eye, turn their backs to the crowd when it’s (extended) solo time, and generally seem to apologize for their existence. Not to suggest any sort of violence be associated with music, but if a “real” rocker stumbled across that kind of thing, their music would – at least figuratively – kick that kind of thing right off the stage. Such rare creatures do still exist, though one has to dig a bit to find them. (And yes, I will readily concede that lessened demand plays a part in the scarcity of the style.) A showpiece of the we’re-ready-to-rock-you approach is Tampa, Florida’s Mojo Gurus. The name – at least for me – immediately brings to mind classic bluesmen (as in, “Got My Mojo Workin’”) and the melodic rocking of Austalia’s Hoodoo Gurus. And the music itself is the kind of thing that efficiently gets across the sort of attitude that says in essence, “fuck it, let’s party.”

The Mojo Gurus know that they’re this kind of band, too: their current tour is billed – without a hint of false humility – as “The Last Rock ‘N’ Roll Show Tour.” And why not? The new album, Who Asked Ya?, blasts right out of the speakers with opener, “Where You Hidin’ Your Love.” A beefy horn section cranks out an insistent riff while the four-piece band swaggers their way through the tune without compromise. Musically, it’s straight-ahead blues changes and Doc Lovett‘s stinging guitar solo right exactly where you’d expect it, doubled in length because that’s just how it oughta be. And for good measure, there’s a second guitar solo. Again, just because. ~Bill Kopp

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