This is album number two from California’s latest exponent of retro rock grooves. Now, Dirty Honey has class oozing through every note and in Marc Labelle they have one of the best rock n’ roll vocalists around.
Don’t Put Out The Fire has a Stones feel to the proceedings with a very simple riff and that voice drifting over the whole piece. Won’t Take Me Alive is a funk tinged beauty, with hints of old school Aerosmith. That funk continues (albeit with a slower groove) with Dirty Mind until the hook and pre chorus rip it up. Roam is essentially a blues ballad and I love just the hint of a Hammond in there to add to the atmosphere of the song, and the clean tone solo is cool. Get A Little High is taking a lot of pointers from a few Zeppelin tunes, but that voice just makes them their own. A total change of vibe with the acoustic Coming Home that closes out Side 1.
The title track opens up Side 2 and it is my favourite tune. The tempo is high and the groove is rockin’. Satisfied is next up and I’m feeling a touch of the Steve Marriott and Humble Pie vibes here. Ride On has a cool, loose mid-seventies rockin’ groove that reminds me of so many bands. You Make It All Right has huge Zeppelin vibes, and the fade out track Rebel Son is pure old school rockin’ R’n’B.
Now, when you play this old school retro music it’s inevitable that songs trigger memories and nods to other bands and that’s not a bad thing, it shows respect to what came before. Very cool record!
8.5/10 from The Grooveman.
