{"id":39630,"date":"2006-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/gonna-get-ya\/"},"modified":"2006-02-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:00:00","slug":"gonna-get-ya","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/gonna-get-ya\/","title":{"rendered":"Gonna Get Ya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><review><\/p>\n<p>DaBluz Crew is a five-piece outfit hailing from<br \/>\nNorthern California. This quintet plays pretty standard blues with<br \/>\na healthy dose of R&#038;B. It&#8217;s hard to fault their enthusiasm, but<br \/>\nthe music is pretty generic middle-of-road stuff. I guess I like my<br \/>\nblues with a lot more grit and fire to it.<\/p>\n<p>Singer Susan Dunlop has a clear, strong voice but her<br \/>\ndelivery does not stand out as exceptional to me. The musicians are<br \/>\ngood, they have talent, but the arrangements are, well, ordinary. I<br \/>\nsuppose one of the reasons this disc didn&#8217;t grab me is that it<br \/>\nreminds me of the general homogenization of the blues into<br \/>\n&#8220;contemporary blues&#8221; that has happened over the past decade. In the<br \/>\n60s and 70s, many artists were influenced by the blues and<br \/>\nmaintained the essence of the roots of a truly American musical<br \/>\nstyle, adopting its simple framework as a foundation for<br \/>\nimprovisation and experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>One of the hallmarks of powerful blues is the<br \/>\ninstrumental prowess of the musicians, typically the role of the<br \/>\nguitar player. In the case of DaBluz, their songs use the classic<br \/>\nthree-chord blues progressions but they don&#8217;t really build anything<br \/>\naround it. There is a distinct lack of powerful solos or<br \/>\nimprovisation.<\/p>\n<p>DaBluz sounds their best when the slow it down a bit.<br \/>\nThe down-tempo &#8220;Twilight Bluz&#8221; is an excellent smoky instrumental<br \/>\nfeaturing some beautiful sax by Paul Towne. &#8220;Missing My Baby&#8221; is a<br \/>\nsultry torch song and Susan delivers the melancholy vocal nicely.<br \/>\nGuitarist Frank Carvalho takes over vocals on &#8220;Roadhouse,&#8221; and adds<br \/>\na nice Texas shuffle to the song, but the lyrics offer nothing at<br \/>\nall to make this track work, a situation that is common throughout<br \/>\nthe 10 songs. The lack of outstanding lyrics is another reason this<br \/>\nCD didn&#8217;t appeal much to me. For blues, the songs are mostly too<br \/>\nupbeat, and frankly don&#8217;t have much depth to them.<\/p>\n<p>The end result is a little too light and breezy for<br \/>\nme to embrace among the type of blues that I personally prefer. The<br \/>\nrecording is well done, nice and clean, and each member is<br \/>\nperfectly mixed. I just want a little more power and grit in a<br \/>\nblues recording for it to bear repeated listening.<\/p>\n<p><\/review><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":28218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[7684],"rating":[11204],"class_list":["post-39630","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-dabluz-crew","rating-rating-c-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/39630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39630"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=39630"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=39630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}