Straw - Apartment 3513 (self-released)

If Hendrix was starting today…I bet a lot of people have used such an opening line…Straw, is perhaps what he might sound like. I’m not saying that this is a continuation of that, all too unresolved sonic story, but rather how the story might go, or at least the soundtrack to it, if it was being written today with all the influences and insights, sonic developments and technological advantages that come with the modern age.

If that provides a general tone for “Apartment 3513,” more specifically, you can also draw a line between Stevie Ray Vaughan’s vintage southern blues and Sabatta’s more modern funky take on such a classic sound and slide Straw around between those two extremes. Where the undertones of attitude and anger come from…well, that is all Straw. But what is good rock and roll without attitude and anger?

And this is indeed good rock and roll. Make that great rock and roll. Flowing along some classic lines and taking in all the right sonic pitstops to gather around it everything it needs – everything from groovesome basslines, incendiary licks that blossom into florid solos, staccato chops, driving backbeats, you know the stuff – this is the sound of rock and roll reminding us that just because it might have found its perfect form a long time ago, doesn’t mean that it no longer has plenty to say and exciting places to go.

You could argue that there isn’t that much new going on here in the grand scheme of things. Well, sometimes it is enough just to re-invent the wheel, especially if the wheel in question allows you to open up the throttle completely and take a white-knuckle joyride through the side streets and alleyways of the history of rock and roll before unashamedly heading down the highway to follow in the tyre marks of previous iconic suicide machines. Or something… I’m not great with analogy.

Straw might not change your life, but he will remind you why you fell in love with rock music in the first place!

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