VARIOUS ARTISTS
Sweet Emotion: Songs Of Aerosmith
(Heavy Hip Mama/Navarre)
Reviewed by John Sekerka

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Bringing Aerosmith full circle, back to it's Chicago blues roots, makes perfect sense as a tribute record. Employing the likes of Otis Clay, Pinetop Perkins and David "Honeyboy" Edwards ensures classic hard rock radio staples are dissected to core basics, and transformed to their rightful place of origin. A relative upstart on the scene, Tad Robinson almost steals the show with a smoky, soulful vocal on "Draw the Line" while Little Walter blows sweet harp accompaniment. The ever scorching Texan blues belle, Lou Ann Barton shows off her formidable lungs on a grand version of "One Way Street". And in a surprise gospel take on "Dream On", Kim McFarland shows where Joe and Steve will no doubt be heading as they roll on down to pension city.

© 2001 - John Sekerka