Southern Rock (#562) on the Nation DDS.
One thing’s gotten into our candy little boy from Sumpter County, Georgia. We’re used to Brent Cobb serenading us with songs concerning the easy issues in life and slowing down, infused with heat Southern harmonies and soulful grooves that put you in the precise temper it doesn’t matter what could be weighing in your thoughts.
That’s undoubtedly not what transpires right here. Ain’t Rocked in a Whereas may alter your temper, nevertheless it’ll be from the jolt of adrenaline, and the releasing from inhibition this album conjures up. In the event you’re not cautious, you may get caught by your your spouse or girlfriend wailing away on air guitar, standing on the sofa cushions that even the canine will get kicked off of.
We are able to’t be too stunned Brent Cobb took a sabbatical from his nation stuff to to make a Southern rock report. In any case, his first album referred to as No Place Left to Depart from 2006 (however reissued in 2020) had a number of these parts and influences for positive. Actually, if Cobb hadn’t fallen into the songwriting crowd in Nashville, penning tracks for the likes of Miranda Lambert, Kenny Chesney, and Kellie Pickler early in his profession, Southern Rock may need been how the Brent Cobb sound developed.
Ain’t Rocked in a Whereas imagines Brent Cobb’s profession if he’d turn into a Southern rocker, screaming right into a microphone in dwell classes, and recording straight to tape together with his backing band of Len Clark on drums, Matt McDaniel on guitar, and Josh Williams on bass, also referred to as “The Fixin’s.” The album is a loud, rambunctious, greasy, uninhibited affair that places songwriting second to discovering a groove and laying down in it. It’s storage rock deep fried in a vat of ’70s sweat.
As a lot of a departure as all of this sounds, on the colour wheel of Southern music, Ain’t Rocked is definitely extra adjoining to what Brent Cobb’s identified for than you may suppose. Groove and soul have at all times been paramount to his music. It’s simply now the overdrive swap has been activated, and the acquire turned up. In the event you’re not satisfied it was a good suggestion for Cobb to go on this route by the point you get to the seventh monitor “Energy Man,” adopted by maybe essentially the most potent monitor within the bunch, “Take Yer Meds,” then you definitely by no means will probably be. This ain’t for you.
This album positive is one hell of an excellent time, although if we’re being trustworthy, the massive hits include a pair swings and misses. As a substitute of attempting to contribute one thing new to the Southern rock legacy, Cobb’s okay simply attempting to recreate the Southern ’70s Georgia rock sound. The way in which Cobb sings the melody straight in step with the guitar on sure songs lacks among the creativeness and compositional energy that was so essential to basic Southern rock.
When the album hits although, it hits. The grooves set on “Unhealthy Feelin’,” “Do It All The Time,” and “Even If It’s Broke” are completely sick. And although this isn’t a songwriting album, Cobb finds the precise moods for the lyricism that’s aligned with the ’70s period he seems to evoke, even when at instances, the phrases are laborious to observe by the noise.
Over-analyze this factor, or discuss your self into believing that is some sea change new route in Brent Cobb’s profession, and also you may get spooked. Sit again and luxuriate in this as a wild card facet undertaking from certainly one of unbiased nation’s killer Southern songwriters, and also you’ll pull loads of enjoyment from it.
7.8/10
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