The Roaming Soldiers - Shine Bird Shine

Texas based Rock / Americana / Southern Rock unleash this new six track ep Shine Bird Shine, and what a great Ep it is.


The Roaming soldiers describe themselves as a are a raw blues, rock, soul, jazz and jam band, and that's exactly what they are. The songs are finely crafted and excellently performed, in fact everything about this Ep really is from the very top draw. Be it David George's amazing bluesy and soulful vocals or the sublime guitar work of Jesse Anderson. As I said, the songs are brilliant, but the two that stand out the most for me have got to be 'Shotgun' and 'Last Cards'. Hopefully these guys will manage to get some dates over on this side of the pond as Id really like to check them out in a live environment.

Great old fashioned blues rock with southern flavour!



rating 10/10

Soul Doctor - Way Back To the Bone

The music of Soul Doctor is to be categorised as traditional hard rock and has (sometimes) many AC/DC-influences. The vocals of Heart remain very strong, as well as the guitar parts of Chris Lyne but at times the songs just fall a little short of the mark. The mid-tempo ‘First Man On The Moon’ is a good example of what you can expect on ‘Way Down To The Gone’: a very straightforward hard rock song which is easy to listen to but nothing more than that, which unfortunately is the case with many of the songs on offer here. By no means are they bad songs, they're easy to listen too, but also just as easy to forget when they stop playing. Its a pity really because there is a hell of a lot of talent on display here!


Sorry but for die hard fans only and fans of Tommy Heart!



rating 7/10