Artist: Mick Kolassa
Album: For The Feral Heart
Label: Endless Blues
Year Of Release: 2022
Format: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
1. Running To You (2:45)
2. Elegant Angel (3:58)
3. Feeling Alright (6:11)
4. Love Ain’t Supposed To Make You Cry (4:48)
5. Easy To Love (4:03)
6. I Keep Looking (3:10)
7. I Left My Heart In Birmingham (3:50)
8. Love In My Size (4:24)
9. Forever Sometimes (3:48)
10. Hold On (3:06)
11. Run Away With Me (3:04)
12. As Time Goes By (1:59)
Mick Kolassa needs no further introduction. Just two months ago we discussed his twelfth album ‘ They Call Me Uncle Mick!’ and now there is already ‘For The Feral Heart’. An album full of love songs. Mick kicks off with the smooth blues rocker ‘Running to You’, which is followed by the jazzy sounding ‘Elegant Angel’, on which guitarist Mario Monterosso plays a wonderful solo. Dave Mason’s ‘Feeling Alright’, the first cover on this album, has been thoroughly overhauled by Mick Kolassa, his arrangement grooves wonderfully. On the atmospherically played minor slow blues ‘Love Ain’t Supposed To Make You Cry’ we can once again enjoy the tasteful guitar playing of Mario Monterosso. After two relaxed jazzy blues tracks, Mick Kolassa abruptly changes course halfway through the album and America and roots-related songs follow (I Left My Heart In Birmingham, Love In My Size, Run Away With Me) on which we see the beautiful violin playing of Alice Hasen. find. But also reggae (Forever Sometimes) and calypso (Hold On) have inspired Mick Kolassa to write love songs. A short version of the much covered ‘As Times Goes By’ by Herman Hupfeld, known from the 1941 film Casablanca, concludes Mick’s twelfth album in a jazzy way. And with that our blues bard is suddenly on a completely different track than we are used to from him. But his powerful, warm voice also comes into its own in this work. And with that our blues bard is suddenly on a completely different track than we are used to from him. But his powerful, warm voice also comes into its own in this work. And with that our blues bard is suddenly on a completely different track than we are used to from him. But his powerful, warm voice also comes into its own in this work.
