Delta Moon/Turn Around When Possible: Live Volume 2
It
is scarcely one short year since Delta
Moon released their last live album Life's a Song ... and also toured in Germany.
Meanwhile, the next
disc was recorded -- potzblitz -- almost a year ago in the Bremen blues club Meisenfrei. That
it appeals to Southerners very well in good ole Germany,
I was allowed to learn at the end of
April 2013 in Freudenburger Ducsaal both live
on stage, and later behind it. So now we have the result of this tour, with surprisingly two
overlapping songs, "Black Coffee" and "Goin 'Down
South", from the previous disk.
There is a paragraph from my last review, that I here -- albeit with a
bit of regret -- (almost) find worth repeating: “Let’s get this straight right away: this CD has a lot of pluses and only a single
small minus. To
get this out of the way: unfortunately, the very genuine spoken
introductions to the songs were cut out, which I personally find unfortunate. Okay,
and then there is the ‘booklet' of only one sheet, but then all the useful
information can be found on the back cover.”
Basically, the brand new disc from Delta Moon is
a little quieter than its predecessor, therefore not quite as good. The full
effect of the songs might not
fully develop the very first spin, but once the wheel
has rotated a couple
of times in the player, there's a
great Turn Around When
Possible ... no
chance to escape this magic groove, being deeply from the marshes of the
Mississippi Delta. At the high top are the
skills of the musicians and the relaxed cool
vocals by Tom Gray,
who also just happens to be a master of the
steel guitar.
What's going on
here is presented meticulously -- relaxed and with tons of feeling , but never
blatant . But
this approach to the tracks is evidence of lots of self-confidence and trust in
their own abilities. The
first of the ten pieces is the horny "Midnight Train“, icing on the cake
for the others that follow. As
to the tempo of the pieces, the closing "That's It" is a significant
upward outlier. The more upbeat "Shake 'Em On Down" just keeps up halfway.
But
-- without wishing to repeat myself -- the power, the depth and content of
these songs lies in a groove that hits where the belly meets the soul and in the
performance of each of the band members, who form as a whole a great unit that
just works astonishingly well . Extremely
cool is, for example, the David Bowie and Iggy Pop song "Nightclubbing"
(from Iggy's album The Idiot, 1977) , in which you see yourself sitting at half
past two in the morning at the bar in some obscure shed with an indefinable mixed
drink.
Therefore, the music of Delta Moon goes unerringly into the gut and the
soul because it is not only celebrated by very strong musicians, but on top of
that is still very authentic. The quartet will be on tour in Germany from early
April to early May, and RockTimes is looking forward to be able to report back from
one gig or another.
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