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by: Robert Randolph & Family Band

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Average Rating: Rating: - A Cd you MUST own! I saw Robert Randolph and his Family Band in Charleston (SC) and Charlotte last winter where they played most of the songs on this CD. This was the most exciting show and the most exciting new music I've heard in some time! The crowd (myself included) was in awe as we watched the most exciting new live act since James Brown, Elvis, or Jimi Hendrix! Brother Randolph makes his steel guitar sing with support form John Ginty, who makes his organ sound if he poured kerosene on it and lit a match and his cousins on bass and drums. I had a friendly chat with Randoplh afterwards and bought this CD. I have to play it sparingly to avoid overplay. "The March" is a very well-crafted jam. "Ted's Jam" is phenomenal, as the bluesy ballad "Pressing My Way." I told Robert Randolph after his Charleston show, "If you guys aren't the next big thing by next year this time, then there is TRULY no justice in this land!" Everyone I've played this CD to loves it! Buy this (and "THE WORD" as an excellent companion piece) and you'll see what I mean. The future of REAL (non-synthetic) music is in great hands with these guys! Rating: - An Amazing Experience The only legitimate gripe one could lodge with this amazing album is that it is too short. Otherwise it simply blows you away. The vibe and energy that come out of tracks like "Uncle Ted's Jam" and "Tears of Joy" are simply unparalleled anywhere else. The Family Band melds funk, blues, gospel, rock, and pure adrenaline into one of the best live albums in a long while. Marcus Randolph's rock solid foundations on the drums lay the groove out, and coupled with Danyel Morgan's super funky bass work forms an increadibly tight pocket. John Ginty makes the Hammond Organ sing, and Robert Randolph is blessed with the ability to somehow channel his soul through the fingerboard of a peddle steel guitar. The music is unlike anything I've ever heard, and remains fresh and new throughout the entire album. Other highlights include the more laid back groove of "The March", the spiritual "Pressing My Way", and the rockin' closer "I Don't Know What You Come To Do". The best part about the album though is that it is merely an appetizer to the full palete of Randolph's ever expanding full repetoire. So once you buy this album, which I highly suggest, be sure to check out some of the bands other work on bootlegs, and some of RR's other work with "The Word" and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band. One things for sure, when Rob says he wants to "Tear the roof off" the Wetlands, he meant it. Rating: - I'd bet this is what emotion really sounds like. Robert Randolph and bassist Danyell Morgan sing on this cd, briefly, speak here and there, but their words serve as merely a guide to the bare emotion unvieled by their fingers expertly gracing their instruments. Robert Randolph, through his sacred steel, conjures up an atmosphere, a feeling, that is unspeakable. Love is The Word with Robert Randolph and the Family Band, but Robert Randolph doesn't need to speak a syllable to let you in on it. He lets his steel do the talking. It is impossible to deny the band's talent, regardless of whether or not you are a fan of jam bands, soul, blues, or gospel. Their musical chops will dazzle you, positively. Randolph, on his steel pedal guitar, is obviously the certerpiece, but he's backed by some great talent. Danyell Morgan, bassist, slaps and plucks his way through the cd like clockwork, whipping the melody into a frenzy at points, and easing it back to a lull with quiet strums. Drummer Marcus Randolph is a crash-bang man, dependable to the end. He keeps it together. John Ginty completes the flavor with exquisite fingers, enhancing climaxes with his B-3 organ, filling the spaces between wails and runs by Randolph, completing the sonic pleasure. The tunes they play are unatulterated for one second by the staples of the modern music industry, like canned feelings, cliched situations, angst, or pretention. It is four men on a stage playing their instruments as best as they know how, and the results are disastrously exquisite. Lullaby flow that will put you on the edge of dreamland, cries of anguish that will tug at your heart, and electric energy that WILL make you get up and dance. Its unavoidable. You must shake your hips, the Family Band doesn't want it any other way. I come away from listening to the CD with a new philosophical agenda in mind, a refreshing new headful of thoughts, even though very few words are spoken over the course of the CD. Press On makes me want to strive that much harder for what i want. The March makes we want to hug the next person i see walking down the street. Shake Your Hips, well, I want to walk down Main street shaking my thing for all its worth, and have everybody else join in my jubulant celebration of life. It's that good. So why does it get a four? Because they will be even better in years to come. Its only just beginning.

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