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This is the third album by the highly acclaimed singer and electric bassist Laura Love from Seattle, Washington. Love has a powerful raspy voice not unlike Toni Childs, and she uses it to full advantage, howling, crooning and even yodeling out the original tunes on this album.
These tunes usually have spiritual underpinnings that give Love’s lyrics a simplicity with a lot of depth. Love often strings together “nonsense” words that serve as rhythmic connecting devices similar to “scatting” or African chant.

She also does some great cover tunes such as Hank Williams’ “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” Jackie DeShannon’s “Put a Little Love in Your Heart” and Hedy West’s “500 Miles” (incorrectly listed as traditional). Love is backed by the hot guitar playing of Rod Cook and the extremely diverse percussion playing of Linda Severt. Love is a very good bass player, but she does have a tendency to use the slap and pop sound a little too much.

The overall feeling to this latest album is her usual mix of African and Jamacian inspired funk & roll, so it is a little perplexing (and downright misleading) that both the album’s graphics and the pun of it’s title are very Celtic oriented.

Lahri Bond (Hadley, MA)
Dirty Linen Magazine

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