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Artist |
Cable |
| Title |
Skyhorse Jams |
| Label |
This Dark Reign Recordings |
| Reviewer |
Vinnie Apicella |
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First few notes of "Whiskey Drinkin' Woman," the opening track, and it's
like, here we go again... low bass rumble, snail's pace gut-churning, pick
apart the past, doom for the downtrodden. And then something miraculous
happens -- look skyward and what's that quickly whizzing before your ears?
A winged stallion teeming across the fields of predictability, and
with it, a wild spirited groove unleashed and calling forth the jam in
an up tempo guitar rocking beat. Savor the flavor, it's still the
seventies' but it sounds awfully fresh. Of course with bands such as
these, fond memory bringers of a more colorful and free-dealing decade,
names, faces and titles all become one and the same after a few heavenly
tokes of the peace pipe. Stand to close the stack and life becomes one
big protoplasmic blur, a distorted vision recalling a hey day, might as
well be anyone's. But let's give it to Cable for this momentary lapse of
logic.
The five song session's more the line of an organically grown
kind, all natural, rich and full of flavor with few of the toxic
side-effects that some lesser qualified entrants press upon as
sleep-inducements. They get cagey after a while, sure, any of the
hickory-smoked backyard slam jams will do that. Give 'em enough free
reign and it'd make The Allman's step back, look at their two hands and
wonder what went wrong.
Cable comes from Connecticut, assumed
countryside for the many peace-loving variety, and while "Wind River,"
all eight and half long and winding minutes of it, will give you that
comfortable easy listening feeling as you flutter amongst the clouds,
"Ride The Jackass Backwards" and "I've Been Down" shove ya back to
reality, the Rock becomes harder, the stars spinning round your head got
there from no accident, the band just changed direction, lengthened the
slack and went for broke.
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Robert R. Lewis
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