The debut album by piano player Bill Purdy mixes pop rock and soul making down home feel bad music. Well that is what I read about it in the promotional flyer anyway. Okay not exactly, but I paraphrased and exaggerated a bit. Nothing wrong with that is there. I mean after all it is there to tell me what I think of a particular release anyway, is it not? Well there you have it then.
Overall Bill Purdy makes this very radio friendly blues/soul, very FM light-rock and radio-friendly. Not necessarily a bad thing. He has a fairly decent voice for it and the music is certainly talented enough to be able to pull off a pretty good rendition of said music. Not something I would choose to listen to on a daily basis, but I wouldn’t turn it off if it came on the radio, and it is a hell sight better than most of the other bands trying to great these sort of smooth r’n’b/rock sounds. Like R’n’B as in Motown, not the popular radio type they try to force on us these days.
There is some really nice guitar playing here. And the music is all pretty love lost girlfriend searching for something real music. Very competent lyrically and musically. Very competent all around. Makes me think of something from the 70s, like Isaac Hayes or something, well a knock off of this anyway. Done well though, done well. Don’t you even worry about that.
Very, very smooth. Perfect for picking up chicks, okay not really, but in that movie way. I am absolutely certain before long we are going to have a scene in some Hollywood movie where some guy brings a girl home and puts the song “Carnival” on in order to seduce her. I’m sure something dramatic will happen and maybe make the climax of the movie, you know the part where the chick runs out and realizes he is actually her brother who was separated at birth. And the volume of the song is going to fill the whole soundtrack as we will see scenes of the two riding merry go rounds on their own and we’ll have a flashback montage of all the fun they had together and it will be just right then as the song fades out we’ll show the fella outside of here apartment then he’ll look down at the ground and shake his head as the scene fades to black. Then it will skip ahead 50 years. And they meet again in an old folks home and rekindle their love. Yeah that kind of music.
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