Dustybonez - John The Revelator (ftg The Savior's Army)
STYLE: Rock RATING OUR PRODUCT CODE: 177698-29147 LABEL: Raven Faith FORMAT: Digital Only Single RELEASE DATE: 2019-11-19
Reviewed by Lins Honeyman
Backed by the Savior's Army, Michigan-based rocker Dustybonez tackles one of the most covered gospel blues numbers of all the time by adding a few new words, a different melody and transporting the song from its natural blues habitat to a chunky rock setting. Whilst the singer here has a good enough voice and puts in a passionate performance, this feels like a workmanlike rehash of a song which has been done to death and crucially doesn't add anything fresh in the way that reworkings by the likes of Larkin Poe or Troy Redfern have made in recent times.
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