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Do you know that feeling to have a CD in your shelf that you haven't listened to in, pff, two years or so and suddenly you see it again and you ask yourself why you haven't done so for so long anymore? So put into the player and suddenly the surprise: It is good, really good in fact! Time and again a nice way to get a new CD, for nothing, heh.
So it was pure coincidence that I had picked "Fly Me Courageous" by DRIVIN'N'CRYIN (Yes, I admit, a rarely dumb name) and I have to say that I've been really surprised very positively! Bluesy US-Hard Rock is what we get here, which back then had not received much acclaim by the collective press, because bands like BADLANDS or TANGIER had been there to take it, yet looking at it from today's perspective I have to say that this album really isn't bad.
Of course there is not all gold on this CD that is glittering, but with the title-track, "Let's Go Dancing", "The Innocent", "Together" and the swifter "Rush Hour" they have some potential small hits in their repertoire, which should satisfy every fan of this style, if not more. DRIVIN'N'CRYIN' master the classical mid-tempo just as well as nicely balladesque songs, which always are rooted in the Hard Rock and covered with a bluesy undertone, to quite some extent borne by the voice of Kevin Kinney, which I could describe as a mixture between Anthony Corder of TORA TORA and Michael Stipes of R.E.M., fitting the music.
Who does not back away from the strange name and the not really exciting cover and above that likes the above-mentioned bands will get a really good CD with "Fly Me Courageous", which you most probably, just like myself, will be able to get in second-hand-bins...
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