Living Blues Magazine rolling stones blondie fleetwood mac Thunder In The House review
Living Blues has arrived in the mail and wow the review is just spectacular.
“ELIZA NEALS Thunder in the House E-H Records – What’s the sound of thunder in the house? Its powerhouse blues rocker Eliza Neals fierce and gritty vocals delivering a set of high-octane performances on her appropriately titled new album of the same name. On this exhilarating ride, she captures every nuance of these songs in her transportive voice, carrying listeners along as she winds her way down the blues highway.
The album opens with the funky jump blues “Speedy Beady,” a tongue•in-cheek ode to her favorite rooster” who roams the hen-house seeking new conquests. “Speedy Beady” saunters through the place sleeping with a different girl every night. and he doesn’t even know their names. Stomping rhythms and roiling guitars drive “Love Will.” a defiant declaration that the world sorely lacks love—’we’re all alone in the dark”—and that we need lave to brighten up” our day. The song is fueled by Michael Puwals stinging lead riffs on the instrumental bridge and that snake throughout the song.
Slide guitars and swaying piano chords guide The Rolling Stones-esque soul blues “Blue Bombshell,” while on the shimmering and atmospheric “All Alone” Neals towering vocals echo as they spiral higher and higher Into a the sonic stratosphere. On this song. Neals’ vocals channel the grittiness of Blondie’s Debbie Harry and the emotional crystalline quavering of the Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac’s Bare Wm album. The slow burning ballad “Locked Up” showcases Neals’ ability to convey torturous emotions. While “Wicked Heart” combines shuffling rhythm and blues with straight ahead rock in a cant-sit-still song. The album closes with the title track. a languorous. moving. cinematic song about life’s often desperate struggles. Detroit-born Eliza Neals continues to play, sing and write at the top of her game and “Thunder in the House” offers another compelling collection of her down-to-the-bone, straight-from-the-heart songs. — Henry L Carrigan. jr.
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