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Tony Spinner: Earth Music for Aliens

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Label: Grooveyard Records
Released: 2013.11.15
Time:
 58:37
Category: Blues Rock
Producer(s): Tony Spinner, Michel Mulder, Alex Steier
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.tonyspinner.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Best Friend (T.Spinner) - 4:49
[2] Dust and Ash (T.Spinner) - 5:24
[3] Let Her Go (T.Spinner) - 4:23
[4] The Answer (T.Spinner) - 5:02
[5] Hot Mess (T.Spinner) - 4:17
[6] Good for Me (T.Spinner) - 5:02
[7] Stop (T.Spinner) - 5:09
[8] It's a Living (T.Spinner) - 3:03
[9] Low Down Dirty Shame (T.Spinner) - 5:36
[10] Got What I Wanted (T.Spinner) - 3:24
[11] Missy Talk (T.Spinner) - 3:22
[12] Free Now (T.Spinner) - 4:08
[13] No Good (T.Spinner) - 4:58

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Tony Spinner - Guitar, Vocals, Percussion, Producer
Michel Mulder - Bass, Producer
Alex Steier - Drums, Engineer, Mixing, Mastering, Producer

Joe Romagnola - Executive Producer
Jaap Berends - Mixing, Mastering
Nyxian:Drift - Layout, Design

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2013 CD Grooveyard Records 888295006460

Phenomenal ninth solo disc by this way-kool blues/rock strat-master from Arkansas featuring 13 tracks (59 mins.) of awesome, world-class, high-octane, soul-powered, dynamic, blues-based, guitar driven power trio rock that will make you a firm believer that Real music still exists in a world of musical medoicrity. Tony Spinner is an amazing, gifted guitarist who knows what time of day it is when it comes down to the riffage that matters. A true modern day guitar hero who is doing an awesome job at Keeping the Rock alive on his impressive new Grooveyard Records disc, Spinner's 5th killer effort for the label.

"Earth Music For Aliens" is a timeless, classic guitar rocker, an outstanding, high-quality, retro-sonic slice of blues/rock mojo full of depth, soul and blues power. Complete with a strong emphasis on Real songs and musical talent that include first-rate guitar playing, excellent soulful vox and a superb tight rhythm section who nails the groove down to solid ground. There is something here for everyone (including Aliens!!!) who digs top-shelf blues/rock heavy guitar music. Welcome to the world of Tony Spinner on the essential "Earth Music For Aliens" disc.



Tony Spinner says it best on his web site – “Earth Music For Aliens is for those of you that feel like you are one of the few who care for real music played by real musicians. An outcast or Alien. This band don’t dance or lip sync. In this band the music comes first above all the nonsense involved in the music business.”

Tony’s early influences include Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix, and Muddy Waters, but you can also hear definite SRV and Rory Gallagher influences. Tony Spinner hails from NW Arkansas area and has been playing his particular brand of blues rock for quite a while now. This is his ninth solo effort and the fifth release on Grooveyard Records. You can also hear his work on LA Blues Authority tribute compilations to SRV and Albert King, along with a few Paul Gilbert albums, and live Toto albums from the late 90s and early 2000s. This time he teams up with the superb rhythm section of Michel Mulder on bass and Alex Steier on drums who are his regular tour band when he visits Europe.

Tony toured with Toto not only because of his serious pyrotechnic guitar skills but also because of his excellent vocal abilities, which are showcased throughout this album. Tony can efficiently throw the notes off the fretboard as quickly as anyone can; and it does not sound like a finger exercise. Every one of them is well chosen and fits his clean, clear, piercing tone. Highlights on this one include the energetic testament to love on the track “Best Friend,” the funky jams of the relationship ending “Let Her Go,” the humorous “Hot Mess,” and soulful distorted “Low Down Dirty Shame.” There is also the rockin’ blues of “Stop” and straight ahead rock of “Got What I Wanted” and “Dust and Ash.” “The Answer” is a groovy jam featured on the BRR4 sampler that has an interesting dual guitar attack between the rhythm and the lead guitar when Tony finally lets fly with a superb solo. “Good For Me” is a slow blues that is actually about a relationship that wasn’t good while “Free Now” is a slower acoustic tribute to the end of a relationship. Being from Arkansas there are a couple of songs with a distinct country picking underlying feel like “Missy Talk” and the tribute to life on the road of “It’s a Living.” Closing everything out is the straight up 12 bars blues of “No Good.”

There is an underlying feeling when you listen to him that Tony is just up there to have fun. That he truly enjoys just digging deep for the listener when he’s playing and that passion and fun loving attitude to his music comes across loud and clear. If you are reading this then you most likely share that passion for good music and qualify under Tony’s definition of “Alien” in which case this is one definitely worth picking up.

The Review: 8.5/10

Review by Kevin O’Rourke
Copyright © Blues Rock Review



About a week before first listening to Tony Spinner’s ninth solo release, Earth Music for Aliens, I had read about the recordings of 100 songs from around the world, placed on Voyager back in 1977.  It was to be heard and enjoyed by whomever or whatever the Voyager makes its way to.  Rock and Blues were sparsely represented.

At least they included Chuck Berry’s “Johnny Be Good”, and Blind Willie Johnson’s “Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground”.  Both nice tracks, but my selfish thoughts were that they should have added more Rock and Blues music, something more akin to songs found on this new disc from Spinner.  Judging from the title and cover art from the new disc, I think Spinner may have had the same idea.

Returning to the studio with bassist Michel Mulder and drummer Alex Steier, Spinner takes the listener on a journey down several paths.  I like the way “Best Friend” and “Got What I Wanted” can pump the listener up with its energetically charged, funk infused blues and hot guitar licks and then later, chill us out to a relaxing listen to “Free Now”, about letting go and forgiveness.  Spinner’s vocals are very nice and calming on this track.  

There seems to be a bit of Frank Zappa influence on “Let Her Go” because when I hear the intro and the hook, I am instantly reminded of the late great musical genius.  This one gets weirdly fun and playful.

Spinner serves up some funky treats with “Hot Mess” and “Low Down Dirty Shame”.  A funky rhythm along with Spinner’s teasing guitar licks makes “Hot Mess” a favorite, while “Low Down Dirty Shame” is like a bluesy Funkadelic song with its cool vocal harmonizing, rhythmic groove, and Eddie Hazel-like guitar playing. 
  
A couple of rockabilly treats are worth noting as well. It’s a Living” revisits the sounds of the Fifties rock and roll, and peppers it with a heaping dash of roadhouse blues. And if that’s not enough, check out “Missy Talk”, a guitar centric answer to Jerry Lee Lewis’s “Honey Don’t”.  This one has ‘Sun Records’ written all over it.

“Earth Music for Aliens” is so easy to listen to, I recommend it to all Earthlings, and those not of this world as well.  

Phillip Smith
phillycheezeblues.blogspot.co.at
 

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