Black Hill Data
Launch date January thirteenth 2023
Line Up:
Jared James Nichols – Guitar/Vocals
Clark Singleton – Bass
Dennis Holm – Drums
Tracklist:
1 – Dangerous Roots
2 – Down The Drain
3 – Simple Come, Simple Go
4 – Good Time Woman
5 – Hallelujah
6 – Lengthy Method To Go
7 – My Delusion
8 – Out Of Time
9 – Saint Or Idiot
10 – Shadow Dancer
11 – Pores and skin N Bone
Unfairly lumped in with the younger bluesmen like Laurence Jones, Joe Bonamassa, and so on Jared James Nichols is a lot extra. Yeah, his music is blues primarily based however in the identical approach that Cream and Mountain had been. Nichols loves the blues, however he’s additionally influenced by heavy bands like Black Label Society and that’s obvious in a number of the songs.
An enormous groove opens up ‘Dangerous Roots’ which has a classic sound nearly like Deep Purple’s ‘In Rock’ the place you recognize the needles had been properly into the purple zone then we get some grungy Soundgarden stuff on ‘Down The Drain’ earlier than the pressing rabid blues of ‘Simple Come, Simple Go’ which jogs my memory of Michigan’s personal Michael Katon. ‘Good Time Woman’ may have been on any hair steel document from the mid-eighties – sleazy as hell then issues get heavy on ‘Hallelujah’. ‘Lengthy Method To Go’ and ‘My Delusion’ is each bluesy rockers then we get some tasty psych rock on ‘Out Of Time’. ‘Saint Or Idiot’ begins with a brief acoustic line then the facility chords open it up right into a heavy nasty rant earlier than extra psych on ‘Shadow Dancer’. Ultimate quantity and newest single ‘Pores and skin n Bone’ takes issues into blues rock once more.
That is very good stuff – a traditional energy trio recorded stay off the ground, nevertheless it’s not simply his guitar taking part in that’s spectacular Nichols additionally has some voice, uncooked and passionate plus his rhythm part of Clark Singleton and Dennis Holm lay it down and lock in driving the songs alongside completely. One other January launch so as to add to the highest of the pile.
Rating: 8/10
Reviewed by: Smudge
