CD highlights include Texas Honey by Ally Venable,
Backdoor Man by Bernard Allison, Low Down from The BB King Blues Band, Deep In My Soul by Big Daddy Wilson and Why Did You Hoodoo Me by Savoy Brown.
Bevan's ALBUMS OF THE WEEK
Like just about every lead vocalist of the past 30 years, consciously or not, he has borrowed from the Lizard King's stage persona and in his Cult days he boasted a rich baritone that, one imagines, would flourish on material like Soul Kitchen and
Backdoor Man.
GO: ROCK: OPENING THE DOORS ON A NEW CROWD
His choice of tracks include
Backdoor Man from The Doors, Roxy Music - Remake/Remodel, KC and the Sunshine Band's Get Down Tonight, New Order's Temptation and Creedence Clearwater Revival's Proud Mary, which Moby claims was the song which most inspired him.
CRITIC'S CHOICE; Reaching a point of no return
In "Moaning the Blues," the image of the back door in the second stanza (arguably a mascon image) evokes the "
backdoor man" of the blues - the second-line lover, not the husband, who may also be married or involved otherwise.
"The world in a jug and the stopper in (her) hand": 'Their Eyes' as blues performance