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Release Date: June 26, 2007 Label: Blix Street Grade: B+
From the opening thumps of Adam Jones' bass, leading into the rat-a-tat of Ross Doyle's snare and ultimately the lead chords and vocals of frontman Davy Knowles, Back Door Slam is a front stoop jam group, combining traditional blues with old school Mellencamp in their debut album, Roll Away.
The album takes off with "Come Home", the ubiquitous "my woman done left me" anthem of an angry bluesman, complete with the threat against the man she run off with, as Knowles growls out, "Listen, if I ever get my hands on him / be doin' time in the county farm." This is followed by "Heavy on My Mind", as the lyricist spends "another sleepless night" as he tries to escape his conscience over an action commited.
Back Door Slam "Roll Away" Track Listing
Come Home
Heavy on My Mind
Outside Woman Blues
Gotta Leave
Stay
Too Late
Takes a Real Man
It'll All Come Around
Too Good for Me
Roll Away
Bonus: Real Man
Long guitar riffs punctuate "Outside Woman Blues", which is blues in its most traditional sense in style, cadence, and the protective ideals of jealously guarding your "old lady" from other men, including the caution to players that, "You can't watch your wife and your outside women, too."
Roll Away is permeated with songs that are as equally at home in a smoke-filled bar as they are on a balmy afternoon in a wicker chair on a screened-in porch. The moods range from the soft, slow-dance feel of "Gotta Leave" to the yowling "Real Man" which evokes The Ides of March's "Vehicle" in its chorus. The listing also includes a bonus track, a rockier remix of "Real Man", to finish out the album and put an exclamation point to this first musical statement from a band with a lot of heart and soul.
