Classically trained hard rocking bad girl Loz Campbell has donned a cowboy hat and boots, and hit us with a song about being on the road, in a slightly different groove than her previous output.
There are plenty of songs about being on the road already, think On The Road Again, Willie Nelson, 6 Days on The Road, Taj Mahal, Wanted Dead Or Alive Bob Jovi, Moonlight Mile, The Rolling Stones, so nothing new with the idea, but this seems to a girl searching for something town to town and not finding it, so she carries on to the next place. The riffs she presents are great ones, in a slowed down Loz Campbell kind of rocking way, and the band are right behind her as usual, but she doesn’t seem quite as convinced with her subject matter as she has done in the past, and I think this comes across in the vocal delivery. There is a line, second before the last, which hits the right spot and tingles the spine, and personally I could have done with more of this delivery throughout the song, more scream and less dream if you like.
Loz does play a great guitar – her fingers remind me of Jimi Hendrix fingers, very long and slender and totally in charge of, and all over, the fretboard, and I can imagine this track is going to be great live, but I’m not sure if it’s hooky enough to be a single, or if it should have remained an album track, which she is working on right now and hoping to release in 25.
Loz has been gigging since she was fifteen and I think is 24, and in that time has done some great supports, appeared at many festivals, where she loves to walk into the crowd and interact with them, (see interview), and I just watched a video of her being called up to play with Cherie Currie from the Runaways on Cherry Bomb, so whatever I think of this single, Loz is a girl definitely going places, and been places a lot of people just dream of. I am looking forward to hearing
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