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ERIC SARDINAS & BIG MOTOR - Sticks And Stones; ERIC SARDINAS & BIG MOTOR - Sticks And Stones
Topic Started: Sep 15 2011, 09:46 AM (212 Views)
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ERIC SARDINAS & BIG MOTOR
Sticks And Stones

Provogue 2011

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Album number five from the blues rocking guitarist, Eric Sardinas, in the company of his power trio, Big Motor which sees Levell Price on bass guitar and former Whitesnake man Chris Frazier drumming up a storm. And it's business as usual, as he rips up a storm thanks to his “electric resonator and brass preaching slide pipe”, on some excellent tunes.

It's a record just made for me, as he takes influences from the likes of Muddy Waters and Lightinin' Hopkins, before mixing it up with some seventies rock in the style of Foghat, Chicken Shack, and then even throwing some Lynyrd Skynyrd type southern boogie, just for fun. It's what my ears were designed for. People who know more about these things than I do, will rightly praise his incredible guitar picking, but it would be nothing without some red hot tunes.

And there's a good few of those, let me tell you. There isn't a duff number across the eleven tracks on offer, as he whips up a Delta boogie storm. The early sequence of 'Cherry Wine', 'Road To Ruin' and 'Full Tilt Mama' is an absolute treat, leaving me with a dirty big grin, and a foot sore from stompin' along. The production is full on, and in your face, with producer Matt Gruber doing a bang up job of keeping everything just right in the mix, something that often goes wrong when there is a virtuoso guitarist in town.

At his best, his slide work is redolent of Rory Gallagher in his prime, and you can't say better than that. One of the best blues rockin' albums of the year, by far.

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Edited by zeitgeist, Sep 15 2011, 11:28 AM.
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