Dennis Jones - Pleasure & Pain (2009)

Tracklist

01. Brand New Day
02. Don\'t Worry About Me
03. I\'m Good
04. Kill The Pain
05. Blue Over You
06. Sunday Morning Rain
07. Home Tonight
08. Try Not To Lie
09. I Want It Yesterday
10. Him Or Me
11. Hot Sauce


Goofy album cover aside, Dennis Jones' 2009 album, Pleasure & Pain, is one rollickingly good time - especially if you're a fanatic of groovy blues-rock. Possessing a voice that sounds very comparable to Doug Pinnick of King's X and guitar work modeled directly after Stevie Ray Vaughan (and judging from the album cover, looking much like a cowboy version of Dennis Rodman), Jones runs the blues gamut on Pleasure & Pain, with cases in point being such standouts as the album-opening "Brand New Day" (which contains snazzy, swing-like horns), "Kill the Pain" (which approaches Zeppelin-esque hard rock territory), and such Stevie Ray-like ditties as "Blue Over You" and "Hot Sauce." Pulling in elements of vintage and gritty blues-rock (without smoothing it over in the studio - something that many modern-day blues-rockers are a tad guilty of), Dennis Jones gets it right more times than not throughout Pleasure & Pain.

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