Mel and the Tall Boys
The Frontier of Love
(Lacy Records)
A 12-chaptered disc for all seasons, and a sterling one, on top. The sprightly step of "Fall a Little Faster'" assures brighter hours lie ahead for its melancholic protagonist. Those already of good cheer will likely juke away to big, bawdy strutter "Every Night About This Time;" assembled instrument-wielders collude to amass good-hours ruckus of the type that causes rooftops to sail away. "Runnin' Around" tells starkly of a woman scorned, who just plain ain't gonna take no shit. Trumpet gilds generously, far and near, but truly takes marvelous wing during the steamy "Don't Try."
Noirish titular track "Frontier of Love" soothes and is delightsome. Atmosphere is deepened by appropriate echoes. (Changes bring to mind Johnny Rivers' "Secret Agent Man" in low-gear. Too, the break's bass-string guitar figure recalls 1970s' Marlboro commercials, which, in turn, owed to Cliff Richard's "No Turning Back.") Mel's incandescent cries of an artist torn betwixt temporal l'amour and the creative calling's siren raises gooseflesh, in a very good way.
Recommended: "Fall a Little Faster," "Baby Blues," "Frontier of Love," "Make Room," "Every Night About This Time," "Runnin' Around," "Don't Try to Cover Your Tracks," "Guilty"
Videos: "Fall a Little Faster" "Every Night About This Time" "Don't Try to Cover Your Tracks"
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