{"id":182,"date":"2011-02-28T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T12:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/?p=182"},"modified":"2011-03-01T16:29:51","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T16:29:51","slug":"dark-angel-review-in-maverick-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/2011\/02\/28\/dark-angel-review-in-maverick-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Angel Review in Maverick Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Roadhouse<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>DARK ANGEL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roadhouse CB2<\/p>\n<p>****<\/p>\n<p>Root-rockers roar back with a classic<\/p>\n<p>Roadhouse\u2019s music has always been different, country-rock, heading into roots and blues, with a dark, cinematic world view, the still back routes of America laced with the dirtier back streets of London. This is the band\u2019s 11<sup>th<\/sup> album and is the pinnacle of their achievements, rumbling, roaring and screaming in pain while never losing track of the country undertones.<\/p>\n<p>Under the leadership of guitarist\/singer\/songwriter Gary Boner, the band have been constantly pushing back the boundaries, and from the opening ringing tones of <em>Too Tired To Pray<\/em> you\u2019re in the Roadhouse world. There are few such bands who can get away with expansive pieces, but such is Roadhouse\u2019s mastery that the eight minutes of the majestic title track seem normal.<\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s success is in part due to Boner\u2019s growing maturity as a writer, part of it is the band\u2019s latest in a long line of lead guitarists, Danny Gwilym, whose playing takes things to a new level. There\u2019s an inventive, rich, bluesy rock \u2018n\u2019 roll warmth, but there\u2019s also the air of an early Clapton; imagine Cream playing in a roadhouse. Boner\u2019s chugging, jangling rhythm is incessant and the solid rhythm section of Roger Hunt (drums) and Bill Hobley (bass) is still there from the very beginning is still there. The band\u2019s unusual vocal approach is still there, too, a trio of female singers (Mandie G, Kellie Marie Hobbs, Suzi D) who at one moment appear to be adding backing to Boner, then switch to a\u00a0lead harmony, then solo lead. The constant changes create an ensemble feel, rather like the Band where the boundaries of lead vocals were forever blurred.<\/p>\n<p>Of the tracks, Boner\u2019s <em>Working Class Gospel Drinking Blues<\/em> is a favourite (with Gwilym\u2019s gut-wrenching lead guitar), but there are lighter numbers such as <em>So Over You<\/em>, co-written with Gwilym and Hobbs. A classic. <strong><em><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Nick Dalton<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roadhouse DARK ANGEL Roadhouse CB2 **** Root-rockers roar back with a classic Roadhouse\u2019s music has always been different, country-rock, heading into roots and blues, with a dark, cinematic world view, the still back routes of America laced with the dirtier back streets of London. This is the band\u2019s 11th album and is the pinnacle of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}