The “straight on” blues rock takes on David Gogo’s new album Vicksburg Call are hard to resist.
Case in point, I cranked this up at a recent barbecue and everyone asked who is that? It sounds great.
Exactly.
You just know it works.
From the outset of Cuts Me To The Bone, the punchy What’s Not To Like or the covers of Stephen Stills/Manassas Jet Set or Neil Young’s The Loner Gogo keeps it simple while ripping off some killer lead work.
The mid tempo ballad Our Last Goodbye is a gem, Kim Simmonds of Savoy Brown fame takes care of the solos and fills on Fooling Myself and Gogo goes pop with a superb vocal on Annie Lennox’s track Why.
Drummer Bill Hicks and bassist Jay Stevens go a long way in keeping this album feeling cohesive.
Simply put.
Gogo knows his stuff and your gonna’ like this folks!
JOHN EMMS is a veteran music journalist/blues rock singer-songwriter, radio host and Sun Media contributor.
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