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The opening diiirty diiirty blues notes of this album got me, like being a fish swimming around quite happy minding my own business, then I see a big wiggly worm on the horizon, I can’t resist, I dart for it and I’m hooked, and now I’m in the keeper’s net, the Greig Taylor keeper’s net and I relax into the moment, letting the music wash over me.

Those notes, on the first track Ain’t Got You, are provided by Brian McFie, who has played in Marianne Faithful’s band, amongst others. The whole band has pedigree, drummer Dave Cantwell is ex John Martyn, bass player Nelson McFarlane played with Zal Cleminson’s Sin Dog , and keyboard player Kenneth Clarke is no newcomer to business, also having been with Zal Cleminson.

The second track is Al Green’s I’m A Ram, one of my favourite Green numbers and the band do it proud. There are four covers on this album, and they all sit together with the originals without missing a beat, all of them given the Greig Taylor makeover with great success. The other three are Lou Reed’s Sally Can’t Dance, I Don’t Need No Doctor, brought to prominence by Ray Charles, then turbo charged by Humble Pie for inclusion on their live album Performance, and lastly None Of Us Are Free, again done by Ray Charles in 1993, and the one I’m most familiar with, Solomon Burke with The Blind Boys Of Alabama on his Don’t Give Up On Me album. Four great cover choices and four great work outs.

The originals are all powerful songs, the title track Take A Left has a New Orleans, Iko Iko groove to it, Fast Women and Slow Horses has an Addicted to Love groove, Consequences starts with a Bob Marley Exodus kind of groove, and features some really tasty keys/guitar interplay, and builds all the way through, finishing with an outstanding guitar solo.

I must say the rhythm section of this band really nail all the songs to the floor, leaving the guitar and keys to do their thing with no holes in the sound.

Big Dawg Blues is a really big funky blues number, and closing track Gravy Train finishes the album with a live Elvis meets The Stray Cats rock n roll rockabilly number.

Overall a really refreshing, varied rock blues soul funk album, but undeniably a Greig Taylor Band album. This band really wear their influences on their sleeves, and it works so well. More please. ****

Review by Andy Sharrocks

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