Archive for June, 2010
Vintage Guitar Review
John Heidt
06/14/2010
Dick 50 is Delbert McClinton’s touring band. Guitarist Rob McNelley handles most of the lead vocals and brings the same soulful feel he did to his two solo albums. His guitar is the basis for most of the tunes such as “Like You Did,” which starts with a great old-sounding soul riff and blends into a mix of rock and soul.
Its lyric compares lost love to new love, and the Leslie’d solo teams with McNelley’s soulful vocal to convey the feel. The guitar-through-Leslie sound is key to a number of tunes, including the groove of “Flyin’ Now.” You know
you’re dealing with guys who get it when the band locks in, plays in a way that proves they’re in no hurry to get
anywhere, and by the time McNelley’s solo pops up with its middle-eastern feel, the song matches its title.
While this disc is dominated by a soul feel, classic rockers will love the Stonesy crunch of “Goldilocks” and its blistering slide solo. The disc ends with the clever “Theme from Dick 50,” which, as you might expect, sounds like
a misplaced spy-movie theme from a different era. There are enough surf and mystery licks here to make any
veteran guitarist smile. This group of veterans knows how to make a record, and they play with intensity and feel many younger bands never capture. – JH
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WILDY’S WORLD – REVIEW
Wildy
6/7/2010
Dick50 is, among other things, the backing band for Delbert McClinton. Creative souls themselves, the band plays and writes their own material when they’re not supporting McClinton. Dick50’s Late Show is a charming album mixing elements of Rock, Funk and Soul in a blissed out, melancholy package. The band shows a distinctive ability to craft catchy melodies and arrangements while exploring sounds from garage to blues-inflected pop. Highlights include the funky “Flyin’ Now”, “Medicine Man”, the raw garage anthem “Dirty South” and the Black Crowes inspired “Goldilocks”. This is a band that’s fun to listen to at home, but likely a whole lot more fun in a roadside bar on a Saturday night where Lynyrd Skynyrd and .38 Special share billing on the jukebox with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Hank Williams, Jr. Late Show is entertaining.
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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER – NEW RECORDINGS
Nick Cristiano
05/16/2010
[Dick50 comprises four core members of the great Delbert McClinton’s band: bassist Steve Mackey, keyboardist Kevin McKendree, guitarist Rob McNelly, and drummer Lynn Williams. (They also happen to be among Nashville’s top session men, having worked with B.B. King, John Hiatt, and Dolly Parton, among others.)
If the members of Dick50 can’t quite match the singing and writing of their boss at his best – few can – they still expand on his rock-and-soul amalgam with their own authoritative touch. They bring deep grooves, a bluesy edge, and an occasional ’70s vibe (notice the clavinet on “Medicine Man”), while “2012″ shows they can downshift from
roadhouse rambunctiousness to affecting, midtempo balladeering. Oddly enough, “Theme From Dick50″ veers in a different direction: It’s a fun blast of vintage atmospherics that sounds like a collision of Dick Dale and Ennio Morricone.
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