TONY DANGERFIELD
The Rebel's Got Soul
Ta Pa 36
***** An unexpected departure for an
old rocker.
The bass player and mainstay in the late Screaming Lord
Sutch's backing
Savages, Dangerfield has been a
recording artist in his own right since 1964. For
decades,
however, new product has been as as
infrequent as that of Scott Walker -
self-
then it's an unprecedented
epitaph -
in a soul bag that's as far removed from from the
Savages
and his previous solo output as it could be.
For over-
with Winwood, Morrison, Cocker and Cliff Bennett -
though traces of Dylan are
discernable in his phrasing
-
se.
Indeed, without much rearrangement, "Oh Baby
You're Through" would fit James Brown
like a glove.
Dangerfield's self-
reggae on harmonica-
touch of Philly-
Spell".
My only criticism -
one -
rears up now and then, lends an aberrant BBC Light
Programme edge
to otherwise fiery instrumental
passagework on an album that justifies totally the
words
of John McNally of The Searchers: "You don't
have be young to make good records."
Alan
Clayson