Dave Herrero Album Review Vintage Guitar Magazine
Dave Herrero
Austin to Chicago
Hero Music Group
Its title tells the literal path Dave Herrero took to this blistering debut. His playing and singing are tough and vulnerable at the same time, his choice of covers is marvelous, and his originals capture a classic vitality and feel without feeling like museum pieces.
Herrero proves adept shuffles like “I Don’t Believe,” with in-your-face guitar that would make Elmore James smile and a solo with big, nasty bends. Combined with his wonderful, cocksure vocal, it works marvelously. On the original “Leave Me Be” he shows a real feel for a slow Chicago blues; guitar fills say a lot with one note and a very quiet, soulful solo gives the song distance from others’ efforts. Another original, “(She’s With) Another Man Tonight,” is as a country blues tour de force with amazingly tight right-hand work and nasty slide. It’s how acoustic blues should sound.
A couple cuts display a mastery of soul. “What Could Have Been” is an old-school ballad with a biting solo and passage where he trades fours with his own voice before a nasty solo gives him a chance to show off his chops.
This is a low-tech record (in the best sense) of a high-caliber performance. – John Heidt, Vintage Guitar Magazine
Austin to Chicago
Hero Music Group
Its title tells the literal path Dave Herrero took to this blistering debut. His playing and singing are tough and vulnerable at the same time, his choice of covers is marvelous, and his originals capture a classic vitality and feel without feeling like museum pieces.
Herrero proves adept shuffles like “I Don’t Believe,” with in-your-face guitar that would make Elmore James smile and a solo with big, nasty bends. Combined with his wonderful, cocksure vocal, it works marvelously. On the original “Leave Me Be” he shows a real feel for a slow Chicago blues; guitar fills say a lot with one note and a very quiet, soulful solo gives the song distance from others’ efforts. Another original, “(She’s With) Another Man Tonight,” is as a country blues tour de force with amazingly tight right-hand work and nasty slide. It’s how acoustic blues should sound.
A couple cuts display a mastery of soul. “What Could Have Been” is an old-school ballad with a biting solo and passage where he trades fours with his own voice before a nasty solo gives him a chance to show off his chops.
This is a low-tech record (in the best sense) of a high-caliber performance. – John Heidt, Vintage Guitar Magazine
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