Time Travel
I’ve been listening to and enjoying a variety of NRBQ albums
from across the decades since revisiting and reviewing their debut album of
1969. This one from 2011 may have only one remaining member from the original
line-up, but it retains the eclectic mix of rock’n’roll, pop, jazz, rockabilly
and appropriated classical music established in that first memorable outing.
Terry Adams - keyboardist, main songwriter and original
member - formed his new band Terry Adams Rock and Roll Quartet in 2007 but
after a couple of years felt there was enough of the NRBQ sound and ethos in
this reincarnation to bear the band’s original name and lay claim to this
release. It is, as ever, varied without producing killer punches, and each
track reflecting whatever rainbow genre of the moment to perfection. On this
album I think its pop sensibilities dominate, and they in turn represent
50s/60s sounds a la Beatles and Beach Boys – as well as more generic rock’n’roll
– and at times the lyrics betray their anachronisms in the innocent reflections
on what sounds like young love by, from Adams at least, an elder statesman of Romance
as well as musical experience. Keep This
Love Goin’, Here I Am and Let Go are prime examples of such pleasant
aural time-travelling.
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