Joe Vig's Pop Explosion Wednesday Ides of March show
tune in live: http://bostonfreeradio.com
1)Buzz Cason Walkin'
2)Geoff Bartley "Down Payment on the Blues"
3)Jesse and the Hogg Brothers "Biker Ann"
4)American Beauties "Forever like the Sea"
5)Ides of March Vehicle
6)Sidney Green St. Band "Last Beer and Testament"
7)Carole King Live The Locomotion
8)Laurence Juber I Won't Last A Day Without You
9)Chicken Slacks Going to the Shack
10)Frank Dello Stritto on Robert Osborne
Duane Eddy Gidget Goes Hawaiian
11)The Ventures My Bonnie
King Kong Returns film review
12)The Voodoos Voodoo Walk
Head Shot, Indonesian movie Frank Dello Stritto review
13)The Renegades Ghost Train
14)Frank De Vol "House on Haunted Hill"
15)Bookhouse Boys Waste It
16)Feed The Kitty California Country Girl
17)The Beauty Way When I Came In
18)Sev Grossman Interview
19)The Beauty Way 6, 7
20)Don't Kick me When I'm Down
21)Elsewhere Don't You Believe Me Baby
22)If We Go At All Anteroom
22)Mikey Wax Bottle of Jack
23)The Facctones Psychic Barber
24)5th Dimension Wedding Bell Blues
In The Blink of Life
\https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/aprilmartin2
tune in live: http://bostonfreeradio.com
1)Buzz Cason Walkin'
2)Geoff Bartley "Down Payment on the Blues"
3)Jesse and the Hogg Brothers "Biker Ann"
4)American Beauties "Forever like the Sea"
5)Ides of March Vehicle
6)Sidney Green St. Band "Last Beer and Testament"
7)Carole King Live The Locomotion
8)Laurence Juber I Won't Last A Day Without You
9)Chicken Slacks Going to the Shack
10)Frank Dello Stritto on Robert Osborne
Duane Eddy Gidget Goes Hawaiian
11)The Ventures My Bonnie
King Kong Returns film review
12)The Voodoos Voodoo Walk
Head Shot, Indonesian movie Frank Dello Stritto review
13)The Renegades Ghost Train
14)Frank De Vol "House on Haunted Hill"
15)Bookhouse Boys Waste It
16)Feed The Kitty California Country Girl
17)The Beauty Way When I Came In
18)Sev Grossman Interview
19)The Beauty Way 6, 7
20)Don't Kick me When I'm Down
21)Elsewhere Don't You Believe Me Baby
22)If We Go At All Anteroom
22)Mikey Wax Bottle of Jack
23)The Facctones Psychic Barber
24)5th Dimension Wedding Bell Blues
In The Blink of Life
\https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/aprilmartin2
Artist: Buzz Cason
Album: Passion
Eleven tracks
Review by Joe Viglione
Looking at Buzz Cason’s material on Discogs or AllMusic.com
and hearing his new Passion album one gets the sense that the music industry
has an obligation to artists creating something as driving, catchy and
important as this essential release. An
obligation to get this music into as many ears as possible. Perfectly sequenced, be it track 6, “Like a
Dog,” or that which follows, “Just as Gone,” wherever one drops the proverbial
needle rocking, introspective and appealing melodies flow over the danceable
undercurrent. Cason’s voice is distinct
and to the point. The guitar riffs are
key, a component Ian Hunter utilizes – though the two artists are on different
sides of the fence, they’d be a complementary pairing in concert. Hunter’s 10 song Fingers Crossed disc and
Cason’s eleven tune Passion are releases by two masters in control of their
sound and their message. The music here
rises above the categories and labels – “Americana,” “country rock,” “Southern
pop,” the telling “Fear” is philosophical, as the aforementioned Hunter
certainly likes to be, but – again – from a different perspective. “We Soldiered On” feels like a paean to what
Joe South and Gordon Lightfoot were fervently providing in the ‘70s,
elaborating on those themes with superb production that brings each instrument
its on space, the combination making for a listenable collection that stands up
to dozens of spins. I’ve kept this disc
front and center for the better part of three weeks, and it begs repeated listens.
Venturing to Cason’s Apple iTunes page https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/passion/id1202014300
is like walking into a brick and mortar
store and finding a stack of wax to plow through, especially for the listener
unaware of this man who jammed with Elvis and put vocals on some of Presley’s
posthumous releases. The title track has
lilting guitars that merge with the symphonic strings/keys while Buzz tells the
story with an abundance of descriptive words, distilling into the one word
chorus.”Passion.” The harmonica on “Bread”
sets the stage for this pop-goes-to-the-old-west essay. Not the Jerry Ross composition that was
famously on the flip side of Bobby Hebb’s “Sunny,” this “Bread” is a Cason
original, personal manna from heaven as “there was a time when I thought life
should give me a free pass,” diving into a chorus that is the solution. Fans of Neil Young can find much power in
these tracks, “Will You Love Me” having Young’s transcendence and grit. Three of the eleven tracks reach over the
four minute mark, the other seven within the pop confines of 2:49 to 3:27,
succinct and trenchant, expressing a variety of emotions. Be it “Walkin,” or “That’s the Way it Is,”
the train chugs along with improvisational narratives that each deliver their
own brand of fun.
