CD Review of Just As I Am

DANNY BRYANT'S  REDEYEBAND

MAVERICK MAGAZINE

Danny Bryant’s RedEyeBand
JUST AS I AM                          * * * * ½

Pulsating and powerful blues album.
This guy just seems to get better and better with every new album release. After his great debut album WATCHING YOU! from 2002 was re-released last year by Roots Collectables he then goes and releases this blistering blues CD to follow it.
With long-time band members Ken Bryant (bass) and Trevor Barr (drums) forming the perfect foundation for Danny’s all guns blazing guitar solos, this is a super blues album to get 2010 underway with even more fireworks than were let off at the stroke of midnight on News Years Eve.
With just one cover on the album, a fine version of the John Hyatt song Master Of Disaster featuring a wonderfully soaring guitar solo to close, Danny has penned all the other tracks including the moving Day By Day with some amazingly atmospheric guitar playing and grittily emotive vocals. He also ends the album with the eight minute plus marathon Alone In The Dark, a gorgeous blues ballad with his passionately moving vocals supported by scintillating guitar that builds up to a long magnificent solo that brings the track and this fabulous album to a powerful and enjoyable climax.
Recorded and mixed by Dave Williams at the impressive Grange Studios in Norfolk, this is a fantastic CD that true blues fans will love.

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