Spock's Beard, Wilson Pickett, Bruce Springsteen

SPOCK´S BEARD
GOODBYE FOR YESTERDAY
This group defines itself as neoprogressive, but it has a healthy (at least for me) taste for ballads. A rather original composition, the harmony is never banal and slides from one section to another with such elegance. Country-rock vocals, they remind me of Poco with an underlying instrumental part that timidly veers towards prog. Brilliant

WILSON PICKETT
SHE'S LOOKING GOOD
How beautiful are these raw sounds from the 60s and even before. And then Wilson Pickett is a permanent inhabitant of the Olympus of soul and rhythm & blues, with his dark and wild voice, here seasoned with the riffs of the horn section that never give up and the little guitar that embroiders in the background, like this, without seeming . Genuine vocal fury

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
SAD EYES
I know I'm strange, but Bruce's best album - in my opinion eh - is the fourth CD of the Tracks collection. Among which shines, shining like a star, this poignant ballad, which talks about unrequited love. A song present only in the collections, it is a simple and intense song, with a falsetto and a riff that mark it, completed by an upbeat rattle on six and the bass that is not limited to him, but which tells a story. Myth

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Gianni Giletti
NP May 2024