Troy Redfern
The Wings Of Salvation RED7
On his sixth album in two years, Herefordshire’s workaholic bandito still has his calling cards: Navajo is a Wild West bone shaker and the most prominent use of Redfern’s trademark 1935 Dobro resonator.
But if Redfernfinds a female runaway bound for promised lands but finding only darkness and despair. feels like America at night, on the wrong side of the tracks, its psychobilly scuttle evoking hot rod headlights slicing through the gloom of Gotham City. thankfully, is more Bolan-Stones stomp than Neil Diamond syrup, while recent Louder Track Of The Week contender is the best here, sharing a little bit of DNA with ZZ Top’s and stealing Muddy’s pay-off At this creative pace, you couldn’t catch him in a runaway stagecoach.
