{"id":699,"date":"2011-09-12T14:28:01","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/?p=699"},"modified":"2011-09-12T14:28:01","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T14:28:01","slug":"ravenheart-music-webzine-review-9911-review-of-dark-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/2011\/09\/12\/ravenheart-music-webzine-review-9911-review-of-dark-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravenheart Music Webzine Review &#8211; 9\/9\/11 &#8211; Review of Dark Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ravenheart Music Webzine Review &#8211; 9th September &#8211; Review of Dark Angel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Roadhouse is one of the UK&#8217;s most established big stage Blues\/Rock acts, offering a collaboration between experienced musicians and much younger talented female vocalists. &#8216;Dark Angel&#8217; is the latest in a long list of albums that have been released since the band&#8217;s formation in 1991. The band is centred around permanent members Gary Boner (guitar and vox), Bill Hobley (Bass), Roger Hunt (Drums), Danny Gwilym (guitar) and Mandie G on vocals. Add to this the female vocals of Suzie D, Rachel Clark, Kelly Marie Hobbs and Samantha Richards, to secure one awesome line up. The music on this release has a Rock\/Blues\/Gospel feel with influences from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Creedence Clearwater Revival. I also detect a country feel too, more so on the 7 minute plus &#8216;Rainmaker&#8217;. The male vocals remind me a little of a laid back Alice Cooper (believe it or not), so if you could imagine Alice Cooper making a Rock\/Bluesey sounding album, this could be it.<\/p>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_683\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Gary-Bonner-Abbey-Fest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gary-Bonner-Abbey-Fest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Gary-Bonner-Abbey-Fest-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a> The New Alice Cooper?<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is no song shorter than 4 mins and six songs exceed 6 mins, but you find yourself never getting bored with what you hear. The title track is an awesome 8+ minute ballad, with some dark lyrics&#8230;&#8221;The Devil Took My Brother, Drunken driver took my Son&#8221;&#8230;.&#8221;My Dark Angel, she&#8217;s looking down, She&#8217;s looking down on me&#8221;. This is one of my faves from this album together with the bluesey &#8216;Stormy Monday&#8217; and the Stevie Nicks sounding &#8216;Play With Fire&#8217;. Overall, this release is very good, so for further info about the band go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadhousegb.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.roadhousegb.co.uk<\/a> and check them out. A pleasant release&#8230;8.75\/10 (Dave)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravenheart Music Webzine Review &#8211; 9th September &#8211; Review of Dark Angel Roadhouse is one of the UK&#8217;s most established big stage Blues\/Rock acts, offering a collaboration between experienced musicians and much younger talented female vocalists. &#8216;Dark Angel&#8217; is the latest in a long list of albums that have been released since the band&#8217;s formation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roadhousegb.liveblues.info\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}