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Band:
Mike Farris
Label:
Proper Records
Title:
Silver and Stone
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Band:
Mike Farris
Title:
Silver and Stone
Reviewed By:
John Clarkson
Date Published:
03/11/2018
Label:
Proper Records
Format:
CD
Release Year:
2018
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Nashville-based Grammy Award winner Mike Farris is a man on fire on ‘Silver & Stone’. It has all the ingredients of a classic gospel soul album, recalling Otis Redding, Sam Cooke and Al Green. Farris’ vocals bounce up against swaggering guitar lines, horns and a cascading set of backing singers across twelve tracks.
The outstanding cut is a slow-building, smouldering cover of Bill Withers’ ‘Hope She’ll Be Happier’ in which Farris piles on the heartache after finding himself dumped by his long-term lover. His own seven self-penned seven songs are, however, never anything but solid. ‘Tennessee Girl’, about Farris’ wife of twenty-three years Julie, kicks off ‘Silver & Stone’ in blistering fashion, while ‘When Mavis Sings’ is an equally devotional tribute to his friend Mavis Staples.
‘Silver & Stone’, of course, hearkens back to a different era. There is nothing particularly original about it, and nor is there meant to be. It, however, moves at a scorching pace, Farris is a continually riveting presence, and it is a hugely enjoyable record.
Track Listing:
01) Tennessee Girl
02) Are You Lonely For Me Baby?
03) Can I Get A Witness?
04) Golden Wings
05) Let Me Love You Baby
06) Hope She'll Be Happier
07) Snap Your Fingers
08) Breathless
09) Miss Somebody
10) When Mavis Sings
11) Movin' Me
12) I'll Come Running Back to You
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