CHARLES-WALKER-and-THE-DYNAMITES-M-Review-No26CHARLES WALKER & THE DYNAMITES

Love Is Only Everything

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Pair a 70-something soul survivor with a pack of reverent young virtuosos, and you’ve got a couple of options. One is to make gritty, lo-fi recordings slavishly indebted to some romanticized past. The other is to admit the times have changed and go slightly more modern, and that’s what Nashville’s Dynamites and their veteran frontman do here. Walker was buds with James Brown back in the day, and at times—the gnawed-on, elongated syllables he strings together on “Please Open Up the Door”—he barks with something resembling the Godfather’s hanky-soaking ferocity. Mostly, though, Walker and the ’Mites smooth it out, doing funky vintage soul with designs on making us dance, not marvel at their authenticity. Wise choice.

 

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