Genuine Feel
Canadian chanteuse Romi Mayes shoulders the blues devil with
plenty of genuine feel on this album, a collection of chug-funking songs with
gunslinger support from Jay Nowicki. The title track is a sassy spiel over curt
guitar rhythms that break together into the descending chorus, then back to the
clipped talk up to that next break. It’s a neat na-na-na-na-na-na of a song.
The next two on the album Monkey of a Man
and Let You Down rely a little too
much on that contemporary vocal affectation of the staccato stutter [though
that could be a tautology] but other than those, Mayes can move easily and
effectively between raunch and sweetheart, a little of that pained latter on
the sad and harmonising blues ballad of Gonna
Miss Me; next Bee Sting injects
its spunky venom. And you know, she can do a little of Janis, certainly in
tone, as in later song Wonder Now.
Great stuff.
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