Bob Meyer “All this Is That” (Malicious Damage, 2006)

“Sharecropper acoustic blues from South London”

Something strange is going on with Bob Meyer. A South Londoner born and bred, he sounds as though he hails from darkest Mississippi, with a gravelly whisky-ravaged voice that rasps away like a nonagarian sharecropper. His music is primordial blues, tough and dirty, that harks back to Robert Johnson’s template and at times comes close to being as powerful. Meyer has a real feel for the music and delivers real blues in a classic style, with equally classic themes (bad women, bad love, trips to the crossroads). In the main his songs are short and sharp, with few notes and fewer words, recorded in a lets-do-the-show-right-here style with no overdubs or studio trickery. From South London maybe, but unadorned and untarnished, “All This Is That” is the real thing.

Date review added:  Saturday, March 25, 2006
Reviewer:  Jeremy Searle
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Related web link:  Malicious Damage Records