Big guy, big voice, big irony in the album’s title – Weightless is big on soulful quality and I’m not sure why he is billed as a Canadian blues player though the nationality isn’t obviously up for question. The opening two songs I Lost My Way and My Last Day are very much in the soul vein, balladry over funk though plenty of groove, and there is an effects rich guitar lick on the former. Third So Easy is Country soul with Anderson’s gruff voice tempered through sweet if sandpapered higher notes. This is a lovely track, if you like lovely. Fourth and title track Weightless is R&B on the aural measuring scales, returning to, as with the opener, horns and some soulful chorus support. If it’s guitar work you want, there is some interesting twang on seventh The Fight, the Country tinge again evident, but the blues doesn’t really get a definite show until eleventh Between the Lines, emotively played on another slow burner showcasing the warm full vocal. Big guy, big voice, big soft core overall on these fine twelve tracks.
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