Firmly Planted
Guitarist and vocalist Samantha Fish fires up the blues and
country stubble in this field of familiar but impeccably ploughed musical
furrows.
As in grooves.
Opener Road Runner deceives a little with its Country tinge,
but the guitar breaks are rock solid. There are more balladic numbers – and
these are fine as Fish sings it true fast or slow – but it is the power that
most impresses. And we get this in Highways Holding Me with its classic rock
riff; the thudding Turn It Up; a pounding Show Me; a rousing Wild Heart [though
as title track this is not the barnstormer one might have expected, keeping the
agricultural allusion….], and a lyrically assertive vehicle for more oomph in Bitch
on the Run, the penultimate track.
Last track I’m in Love With You demonstrates her impressive range
as she swings sweetly if suggestively in an acoustic closer. Like a field of
corn blowing softly in a summer wind.
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