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- Artist(s): Phil Alvin
- Summary: The follow-up to Dave and Phil Alvin's Grammy-nominated Common Grounds release is another covers album that includes songs from such artists as James Brown, Thomas Dorsey, Lead Belly, and Big Joe Turner.
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- Record Label: Yep Roc
- Genre(s): Blues
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Sep 15, 2015There’s not a weak track in the dozen making this another candidate for blues release of the year from brothers who almost never got to play another note together. Making up for lost time never sounded so good.
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MojoSep 10, 2015Phil's voice is fierce, Dave is warm and the band masterly. [Oct 2015, p.93]
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Sep 10, 2015Picking up from last year’s Big Bill Broonzy tribute Common Ground, here the Alvins run riot on another covers set.
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Sep 14, 2015Whether the brothers suggestively croon about love or chastely celebrate the afterlife, play down and dirty or cleanly pick out the notes, they manage to joyfully make up for the missing years.
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Sep 18, 2015If Dave and Phil Alvin want to crank out an album like Lost Time every year until the sun finally sets on them, no one who loves blues and roots music would have any room to complain.
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Sep 10, 2015Dave and Phil both play guitar and sing, and are on driving, cheerfully gutsy form.
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Sep 11, 2015An eccentric take on Please, Please, Please is maybe surplus to requirements, but the rest is lean and lithe.
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