The Derek Trucks Band - Joyful Noise
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Free Music Review: Mixture of styles---
Hit: 4 Stars
Each track on this CD is of a different musical style-Blues, Rock, Jazz, Soul, Jazz-Fusion, Eastern and Latin. There are many guests artists from the various musical styles. But, it all has a commonality in sound, being built around Derek Truck's slide guitar and the continuity of the rest of the band. The CD is around 55 minutes long and the sound quality is excellent.
It is great to hear an artist experiment with styles. Doing it all on one CD prevents the CD from getting boring. However, doing too much can make an album very uneven. There is a little of that on this CD. And the band is not totally successful in all music styles.
There are some great tracks on this CD. The Blues, Rock and Soul songs are all excellent. The Jazz-Fusion track, Look-Out 31 may be the best thing on the CD. It is better than much of the lastest work from fusion superstars like Chick Corea and Al DiMeola.
There are some lesser tracks that pull this down from a five star rating. Every Good Boy is a silly keyboard solo. It sounds like a cross between Don't Sit Under the Apple, and the theme song to Sugar Crisp cereal (Can't Get Enough of Sugar Crisp, Sugar Crisp, Sugar Crisp). Maki Mandi, is an interesting Indian tune, but at over 8 minutes it gets repetitive and goes on a little bit too long. Kam-Ma-Lay is a very nice Latin tune, along the lines of Santana, but doesn't compare witht the best of Santana. It reminds me of Santana wannabe's from the seventies (like Malo, which feature Carlos Santana's brother).
This is a very good CD. Some complain because it explores new areas and is not just Southern boogie or blues. If that is all you want, then you shouldn't buy this CD. If you like new and different, played very well, then this is a small treasure.
Free Music Review: Good music. Plain and simple.
Hit: 4 Stars
after reading reviews concerned with the musical genre incongruity of the album, I was curious to see how it played out. After listening to the album stright through on repeat for 10 or 11 times, I find this conception to be way off mark. This is an album of moments, and each song has its own. But when you tie them together, you find yourself filtered to the basic essence of the CD: joyful noise. The Solomon Burke tracks are a revelation and DT's playing throughout is never superfluous, never wasted. His harmony guitar on track 4 is sublime. It is an album that seserves to be played straight through. I can only hope he keeps this up. Head and shoulder above most outings from "guitar gods". A very good album.Free Music Review: Very Diverse, but interesting
Hit: 4 Stars
For starters, I am a little disapointed in this album, but that does not mean that it is not a good record. Personally, I enjoyed "out of the Madness" a lot more because I like the blues. However, on this album Derek runs the gauntlet with a diverse set ranging from blues, soul, jazz, and what sounds egyptian, not sure but it is cool. This kid is a great player, no doubt about it, but this set is to diverse for me to get into it. However, you have to give Derek credit for making an album that is so diverse because most artist never change or evolve, he is great talent, but I will stick to the blues.Free Music Review: another step towards greatness
Hit: 4 Stars
Once again Derek displays varied influences and awsome ability. A great improvement over his second album, Joyful Noise returns to a more jazz-world music arena, but still provides some good blues and soul tracks. He has yet to stretch and scream as much as his intial release, a blazing set of grinding licks, smooth amazing slide work and classic jazz. But at least he is not boxed into the blues setlist that dominated the second record. The song selection on Joyful Noise is widespread and the guests are many, which can distract the listener. But the Joyful Noise makes for a Joyful trip.Free Music Review: wise beyond his years
Hit: 4 Stars
derek is an amazing gutarist. it's obvious that his primary influence is the mighty duane allman, although derek posses a much grander global view of music. when listening to this albulm one can hear metallic fusion, soul(ala solomon burke), funk, blues, indian and free-form jazz and the pumping opening track gospel. derek transcends the mediocre jam band music scene becuase he plays like a fifty year old black man on a soljurn to the great divide.