Something to Hold Onto

Besides Mick Collins, another beautiful bastard Devil-Wizard of the genre is Greg - Oblivians - Cartwright. Legendary with the Oblivians, immense with the Compulsive Gamblers, and superb with this other magnificent creation of his.

With Too Much Guitar you say to yourself, “okay, he made the masterpiece album with his Reigning Sound,” but what does this cursed bastard do?! He lets a whole five years pass and then throws a wonderful album at you, a “moody & melancholic” side - his own words - of the Oblivians sound. You can’t define it… it brings you back to adolescence with sounds filled with sixties moods, R&B, soul but also imbued with that traditional American sound…
And with that bastard voice, flirtatious… despite the 17 octaves of the “great singer” whose opinion I couldn’t care less about… that animates this splendid bastard…

Another gem…