Monday, 9 November 2020

William Shatner - The Blues, album review


Past Tense / First Syllable / Surname

On the basis I won't be the first to pick up on this, I have presented in, I trust, the most original way for an unoriginal idea.

And you think I was a fool to expect any better? Perhaps, but Shatner can be satirically engaging when tackling other genres/projects, but here the range - actually the binary poles - of shouting to 'emotive' narrative is quite dismal. Established backing musicians, especially guitarists, lay down apt enough backings, but how they then allowed the overdubbed vocals to survive over their names is a little incredulous - unless they were paid before the release. 

Too far beyond, and not far out.

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