Robert Gordon (with Darrel Higham)
I Sure Miss You
(Victrola)
As was evident on what sadly proved to be Robert's final tour, The Voice boomed no less commandingly than when 1970s' CBGB spotlights had illuminated the Tuff Darts. This writer cannot conceive of any reader here being unfamiliar with the stentorian-piped finger-popper, so exhaustive description will go unwritten.
This 500-unit digipack preserves 22 tracks with which Robert delighted Finns and Danes in 2020. Wildly cracking tunes from throughout his career dashed past, hip-chains swinging and roach-killers buffed to high shine.
A talent of Robert's stature demands appropriately able guitarists. And, from Jeff Salen and Link Wray, to Chris Spedding and Danny Gatton - and here, bopping maestro Darrel Higham - such have always taken Robert's side. Darrel accords each track the hot-rod treatment for which he's lauded.
Free-footed songs are all kinds of alive, and occasional, smoldering torches make indisputable The Voice's preeminence.
(A bonus is appended: Robert, when but 16, crooned James Brown's "Try Me." To quote Dave Edmunds - "From small things Mama, big things one day come.")
Recommended: "Some Day, Some Way," "Red Cadillac and a Black Mustache," "I'm Coming Home," "The Fool," "Heart Full of Soul," "Drivin' Wheel," "Hello Walls," "Walk On By," "Suspicion," "Race With the Devil," "Rockbilly Boogie," "I Sure Miss You," "Move It," "Red Hot"
Videos: "Rockbilly Boogie" "Heart Full of Soul" "Sweet Love on My Mind" (all live in 2020 Finland)
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