Reigning Sound - Is It True - 2009

In addition to 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 creature of his.

With Too Much Guitar, you say to yourself, "okay, he made the masterpiece album with his Reigning Sound," and instead, this cursed bastard does what?! He lets a few years pass and then drops a wonderful album, a "moody & melancholic" side - his words - of the Oblivians sound. You can't define it... it takes you back to adolescence with sounds full of sixties moods, R&B, soul, but also infused with that traditional American sound… And with that bastard voice, flirtatious… in spite of the 17 octaves of the "great singer" whose opinion I couldn't care less about… that animates this splendid bastard…

AlbumONE… if you haven't figured it out yet… But the beauty is that this guy who makes an album like this, mixing bitols, van morrison, arthur lee, graham parker, and even bob dylan… after having been one of the craziest iconoclasts of "Classic" Rock… you say he has no class, talent, nobility?! Naaaaaaaaaaa