BLUES SPIRIT

Remakes have a bad rep. And largely, they deserve it. ‘But the zombies are fast in this one’, isn’t much of a hook but it’s still better than a shot-for-shot slog through a classic that adds nothing to the conversation except a dash of lurid colour. Into this tangle of thorns walk GA-20, whose new record might have fallen into the second camp had it not been executed with so much care and attention.

Try It…You Might Like It! finds the Boston blues trio made up of guitarist Matt Stubbs, singer/guitarist Pat Faherty and drummer Tim Carman setting their sights on the Midwest in order to rekindle the magic of Chicago bluesman Theodore Roosevelt ‘Hound Dog’ Taylor, as well as his band, the Houserockers.

Over the course of 10 songs they seek to do justice to the lean, mean, all-live spirit of Hound Dog’s 1971 self-titled LP – which launched the legendary.