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and was very well-received. They describe this new album as a “folk” release,

largely acoustic and containing a couple of retro-pop styled numbers and
plenty of items that could fall into an Americana category – so maybe there

are still a few things to interest some readers.

Many will enjoy the last two numbers on the album, a version of Jimmy Dale
Gilmore’s very bluesy acoustic piece, ‘Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go

Downtown’, and the rocker with a slight tinge of country that is the

optimistic title track. No, not a blues set then, but fans of Americana should
find plenty to enjoy.

Norman Darwen

The Dennis Spencer Group with Bobby

Warren—Bluesman from Jupiter—

Independent
(www.facebook.com/dennisgoddard)

Dennis Spencer has lived quite a life (or more
like lives) and his blues tend to be anything but

run-of-the-mill. Bobby Warren is a singer and

guitarist from Corinth, Mississippi now living
in Los Angeles, where he frequently works with
Dennis. He sings lead on the final track here,

Dennis Spencer Goddard’s composition ‘You Been Blackenized’. He also
contributes backing vocals to ‘Cold Corner’.

This is mainly Dennis’s album though, and he has here a fine, fairly no-
nonsense – and sometimes humorous - collection of blues and closely

related material; try ‘Gypsy Payback’ though this is seemingly a true story.
Not many blues albums could convincingly open with ‘Bluesman From

Jupiter’, and in one way, that is precisely the point! ‘Your Secret Is Safe’ leans
more towards a roots-rock approach, whilst the gospel-ish ballad ‘Why Can’t

We’ is a very fine duet between Dennis and Tracy Hart.

‘Tall Guy Boogie’ is just that, an up tempo, up-beat instrumental workout

for Dennis on tough guitar and Mikal Majeed on organ, and ‘Thousandaire’
is a fine straight blues, again with apparently autobiographical lyrics. All

the songs make a point, and all are well worth a listen.

Norman Darwen