Right from the first beats, that staccato groove, those big band brass, the chiming piano, and the gospel harmonies, you can feel yourself being pulled back into a delicious musical past. It is the sound of an uptown, sophisticated jazz bar or a Chicago revue band, and the sort of thing that good old Mr Bublé will be covering before very long, convinced that it has been resident in the Great American Songbook for the past seventy years.
“Too Much On My Mind” is the best of two worlds, a slice of blues-jazz made in the modern world but so authentically done that you would find people arguing over what year the original came out and whether it was Tony Bennett or Dean Martin who originally had a hit with it…that’s how good it is.
It is sassy, strutting and seductive, and whilst it might fire on nostalgic cylinders, it is proof that not everything has to be reinvented, retooled and reimagined for the modern audience, some things need leaving alone, having found their perfect form a long time ago. Crooner Ed, in general, and “Too Much On My Mind” in particular, is proof that some styles, some genres, some sounds are great as they are; all you need to do is write new material in that timeless and tasteful style.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
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