Still Biting
An album initially begun in 1976 but put to the side when
the band broke up, it was finished in 1995, two members of the original, Chris
Spedding on guitar and Snips on vocal, polishing it off. Sharks was initially formed
with Andy Fraser as a member, but he left after the first album.
It would appear to be an album flying well beneath the
positive reviewing radar, only beeping on the screen for fans, and even then only
faintly. I quite like it. Understated to a degree, it has enough inherent class
to be genuinely good, opening track Perfect
Days being an excellent song, a melodic structure in its descending tones
with tight harmonies and Spedding, as one would expect, playing equally tight
solos. Fourth Wake Me Up When It’s Time
To Dance is quite a funky chug-like blues, Spedding providing a swath of
amped slide. This is followed by the fine acoustic slide of White Man.
There is an even funkier rhythm on seventh The First Thing, with Snips singing
sassily. Penultimate Blues Rags and
Hollers relies on some distancing vocal effects, but is atmospherically
cool, and closer The Shadow Knows is
a spunky blues, Spedding once again scorching out some slide, Snips matching on
soaring vocal.
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