This review is part of the "Over Flow" Review Series. For various reasons these past reviews were not published anywhere else. I am tagging them as "Overflow Reviews" and may add some extra information before or after if needed but will keep the ratings and reviews just as I originally wrote them. Enjoy:
Michael Hurtt and his Haunted Hearts
Come Back To Louisiana
*** and 1/2
Ah the spicy gumbo that is Nawlin’s music, constantly impressing with range and depth. Today’s chefs adding to the flavor are
Michael Hurtt and his Haunted Hearts bringing back the often forgotten country music of the town. These troubadours pluck and strum their way through some bayou backwater hillybilly lost classics an sprinkle in country fried chicken gristle originals leaving the listener an earful of goodness. The title song and opener comes from Rockabilly Hall of Famer
Jay Chevalier and the back-porch-moonshine keeps a’flowin’ as the Haunted Hearts stroll through their original “I Dreamed By Starlight”, pick with the quickness on
Ford Nix’s “Ain’t No Sign I Wouldn’t If I Could”, an amp up the friskiness on
Tommy Odom’s “She Won’t Turn Over For Me”. The electric playing craftily increases as the album progresses, culminating with the original rockabilly of “Hey Little Tornado”.
Come Back to Louisiana would ring truest crackling over a turntable in a dusty old juke joint or echoing off a balcony somewhere in the Faubourg Marigny. While the title of the newest bonus single “Lonely Mardi Gras” may throw you for a loop, the tune should toss revelers into finding a dance partner and strutting down
St Charles Ave, shimmying and shaking their blues away.
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