Atlanta's Eddie_9V Shows He's a Soulman on 'Capricorn' - Album review by erdanton
“We’re tracking in history right now, y’all,” Eddie 9V says at the end of “Yella Aligator,” the swamp-funk second single from his latest album. While he’s overstating the case a bit, he’s not wrong. The Atlanta-born singer, songwriter and guitarist was set up at the venerable Capricorn Studios in Macon, Ga., where the Allman Brothers Band and Percy Sledge had once recorded. Also, Eddie 9V is working in a vintage-style soul vein on most of the 11 songs on his third LP.
It’s a shift from the sound of his previous albums, where he dug into old-school electric blues that evoked the crackling, fuzzed-over guitar sound of Elmore James and Freddie King cuts from the ’50s. On, Eddie 9V is showing off his soulman bona fides with locked-in rhythms, flashy horns and a healthy measure of whirling Hammond organ and electric piano. That’s not to say he’s forsaken the guitar: there are riffs a-plenty here, the kind that grab hold and pull you under.
Not every song clicks as persuasively. “Mary Don’t You Weep” never seems to take off, despite the contrast between the gospel-style female vocals and a bump-and-grind blues vibe. Elsewhere, “It’s Going Down” meanders through an acoustic arrangement with guitar noodling and flute accents as Eddie 9V sings about friends “who may be bad people but they’re good to me”—surely a low bar for celebrating one’s associates.
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