Son Of Dave is back with his latest album Call Me King that was recorded with Alex McGowan at Space Eko East, before Benjamin Darvill (Son Of Dave) left london to go back to his roots in Winnipeg Canada, after 24 years as a regular face on the London Music scene. During which time I never once realized he was involved with Crash Test Dummies. This latest album is released on his own Goddamn records.
This opens with the harmonica led blues of Kick Your Butt that has a warm very basic early blues sound to it as Son Of Dave almost whispers on about how he was born to Kick Your Butt.
Waste Time With Me reminds me of Mungo Jerry as it shuffles and honks and the shakers keeping time slowly move this on like they are sat on a southern porch somewhere rather than in the hallowed space of Space Eko East studio in east London.
Call Me King is more like a Howling Wolf song, both lyrically and in the way it's played, as Son Of Dave really thinks we should all doff our caps and Call Me King, which may be the sort of line that gets some people wondering if it's appropriate for a middle aged white guy to be making such a claim in a blues song, either way it's a great tune.
Remaining Days is more of a field holler from the bayous of Hackney Marshes, slow ponderous and with Alex McGowan's production making sure every tambourine rattle counts, as much as the handclaps and of course the vocals.
Wild Wild You almost sounds like the bluesiest end of Captain Beefheart, as Son Of Dave gets down to letting us know how Wild the person he's singing about is.
F That Daily Mail is a blues howl of bile at the torrent of awful stories that the Daily Fail covers and is another in a long line of songs in hate of that rag, this time railing against the lies the paper trades in as a matter of course.
|
I'm Going Monkey For Your Love is a great shuffling blues shout of lust and love for the person that really makes you flip out.
Someday Soon you too will own some Son Of Dave records and enjoy the cheap and cheerful percussive energy this has that feels like he's ready to hop a freight rather than leave his baby at home as he goes out on the town once more, now he's able too post pandemic, as that train rhythm really get going.
Knock Off is the most piano led tune on the album and accompanied by a quick shuffling beat and harmonica has some scat style rapped vocals to get you up and dancing wondering did they just nick a piano part from It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).
The album closes with Jump Hoops that has some toxic male vocals telling his other half not to ask questions about what he's been up too and with whom as he tells her that he won't be jumping through hoops to tell the truth any time soon.
Find out more at https://sonofdave.bandcamp.com/album/call-me-king https://www.facebook.com/theoriginalsonofdave
|
