Gladshot
Winter 2009 brings us Gladshots newest release Burn Up & Shine! Singer-songwriters Debbie Andrews and Mike Blaxill front this quintet...great harmony-laced pop with a touch of 70s California. Infectious songs like "Feel You" and "Running Past Rosetta" should be drop-kicking inferior tripe off radio playlists everywhere. They have everything - sing-a-long hooks, strong harmonies, efficient but great guitar solos. Classical/jazz-influenced Debbie Andrews' work on Wurlitzer and Hammond B3 just as often adds a hip and dreamy edge to the material. Her harmonies with guitar troubadour Blaxill are picture perfect. The material is solidly written, well produced, earnest pop that is appealing on many layers. Blaxill's vocals might be at least as valuable to the mix. When he's singing lead, you are left wondering where you heard that voice before. Then you realize you haven't - it's just that you can not imagine someone with pipes like that not being better known. Ditto this band, and ditto this record. Gladshot is one of the nicest suprises I have had all year. POP MATTERS by Bill Holmes
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| Girl On Empty |
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| Dog On A Skylight |
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| Pink Sky |
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| Resurrection |
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| Running Past Rosetta |
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| Never Been To Vegas |
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| Feel You |
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| He Dreams Alone |
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| Really Something |
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| Perfect Kiss |
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| No Reason |
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| End Of The World |
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| Hotel Room |
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| Dead Ends And The Glory |
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| Hallways & Doors / Crumbling Wall |
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| Reckoning |
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| Coming Around Again |
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| Sunshine Hotel |
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| Fallen |
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| That Joe Is Gone |
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| L.A. |
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| Testament |
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| Fever |
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| Be Here Now |
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| Always An Angel |
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| Dog on a Skylight |
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| The Dead Ends and the Glory |
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| End of the World |
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| Fabulous Friends |
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| Early Light |
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| He Was Gone |
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| All I Want Is You |
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| Like The Angels Do |
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| I Can't Tell |
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| American Night |
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| Leaving |
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| Nobody's Looking |
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| Straight From The Fridge |
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| Slo Glide Ride |
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| 1961 (You Could Still Get Lost) |
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