by
Mitch Ryder
- Record Label: Michigan Broadcasting Corporation
- Release Date: Feb 13, 2012
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UncutMar 20, 2012Mitch Ryder here astutely merges heartbreaking social realism with accomplished, funky Motown/James Brown grooves. [Mar 2012, p.97]
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Mar 20, 2012Ultimately The Promise doesn't point toward the future, but it does deliver fulfillment abundantly, from the place things really are, showcasing a confident, relevant, singer and songwriter.
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Mar 20, 2012It's not a masterpiece or a groundbreaking new direction musically, just an hour of mostly solid rock 'n' roll.
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Mar 20, 2012With a sympathetic producer in Don Was, who worked with Ryder in the 1990s with his own Motor City band Was (Not Was), Ryder is able to make a late-career statement that stands tall alongside anything he's ever done.
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Mar 20, 2012While it's not in the vein of his riveting, pulsating classics, it's a tough, often lyrically reflective rumination set to no nonsense, simmering, often swampy blues inflected rockers with an undercurrent of taut funk.
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Jun 14, 2012It's hard to see how The Promise could achieve some sort of musical relevancy.