Of all the musical ingredients needed to cook up a tasty batch of rock and roll, one of the most intangible and underappreciated is attitude.\u00a0 You can have the cleanest, fattest hooks in the game, but if you can\u2019t muster up a little snarl, a dash of wild-eyed fervor, don\u2019t even bother, man.\u00a0 It\u2019s gonna come off flatter than a penny on a busy train track.<\/p>\n
Of all the assets Jake Stigers bring to his game — and there are plenty — maybe the most appealing is attitude.\u00a0 The dude just plain loves to sing, and it shows.<\/p>\n
Stigers\u2019 previous outing Coming Back Again<\/i> found him pairing with guitarist\/co-producer Nunzio Signore on a full-length album dominated by catchy, radio-ready tunes.\u00a0 No Vacancy<\/i> is a step forward in terms of musical range, emphasizing the southern r&b roots of his power-pop\/club-rock sound.<\/p>\n
Opener \u201cRide With You\u201d is full of sass and jacked-up r & b propulsion, going for the big riff and scoring.\u00a0 \u201cEnd Of The World\u201d and \u201cTomorrow Never Comes\u201d are a little darker and heavier, but don\u2019t neglect melody while throwing off sparks.\u00a0 The ballad \u201cShe\u2019s A Woman\u201d might not have the most original lyrics, but the acoustic guitar and mandolin riffs are so sweet you hardly notice. And \u201cHouse Of Your Own\u201d and \u201cSlow Time\u201d show a gospel influence in the vocal arrangements even as the lyrics bring greater emotional depth to the proceedings.<\/p>\n
The standout highlight here, though, is the one cover Stigers throws in, a swaggering, completely infectious run through John Hiatt\u2019s \u201cRiding With The King.\u201d\u00a0 Hiatt has written a lot of songs that have been made into hits by others; Stigers deserves his turn with this exuberant take on a classic.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s that swagger that separates Stigers from the pack, and makes both Coming Back Again<\/i> and now No Vacancy<\/i> eminently worthy of your time and attention.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[7774],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-40170","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-jake-stigers","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40170","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40170"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}