Bentley’s Bandstand Review
3/18/2010

It is not always easy being someone else’s backing band. You may have a setful of songs of your own, but when can you play them? Not on the bosses’ time. The audience did not pay to hear the bass player’s or drummer’s songs, unless your name is McCartney or Starr. But it turns out roadhouse rock master Delbert McClinton, who really is one of the great singers on the planet, has an incredible band behind him named oddly enough Dick50. Really. They have mastered the brilliant blue-eyed soul of their front man, and taken it a couple of notches deeper on songs like “2012″ and “Friend of Mine.” Their approach is contemporary, as much rock as anything else, and the four members of Dick50 has a dozen influences that steer them right. Most of all, they use soul music changes for rock&roll songs, and have the instrumental and emotional capability to make it work. What really brings everything is the vocal power of the band, because Late Show is the full-tilt boogie when it comes to the singers. Add enough fire power to burn down a bandstand, and you proof that it isn’t all up to the front man to supply the intrigue.

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