The Respectables, Sweet Mama, Universal

It might be a detriment to the band that the only track that jumped off of the speakers was their single “Sugar” dueto the involvement of producer Gordie Johnson. It is not that the rest of the album is bad, it’s just that the band spends the majority of the album aping bands such as The Rolling Stones and early Rod Stewart. Their brand of retro rock is so much of a throw-back to 1960’s rock n roll that the band’s personality is lost and the album comes off feeling more like a classic AM rock radio station than a cohesive effort.

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Trev

A proud and over-caffeinated husband, father, runner and writer. I've written for the local weekly The Coast for over a decade and have since taken to creating and writing for HAFILAX for even longer. I hope you enjoy the musings of a guy who has loved music for the better part of 4 decades, and has an album of concert tickets to show for it.

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