Angels Got his Back is the sophomore album by Bard the latest band to record at Ray Ketchum's Magic Door Records Studios in Montclair New Jersey. They are made up of Ray Pagliaro, Michael Schreiber, David Kolk, Mike Potenza And Dave Menez and produced and mixed by Ray Ketchum. All the lyrics are inspired by Shakespearean poetry as interpreted by Ray Pagliaro.
The album opens with We Flattered Be a modern countrypolitan tune in the style of Danny & The Champions Of The World meets the woozy end of Neil Young with a small dose of Tedeschi Trucks, with quite close production, a song of love and some of the more unlikely places it appears.
Angels Got His Back opens with a keyboard line stolen off Stevie Wonder, building into a gorgeous plea for help and understanding, the sunny guitar working with the gospel backing singers to keep this uplifting and hopeful, no matter what happens.
Walls is almost interchangeable with some of the songs on Warren Haynes new solo album, only with more pronounced organ, it feels like it fits into a certain prevalent strain of American Country Blues, that is very popular right now, I hope this gets noticed like all the bands I'm mentioning.
We Are Such Stuff as dreams are made of, is a hard sentiment to be pushing in the times we are currently living through, but if you don't have dreams to go for what's left, this slows things down to somewhere between Ray LaMontagne and the Tesky Brothers.
Young Yesterday was true for me last Friday night being at 59 the youngest person praying at Kol Nidre Services at the Synagogue my grand parents founded, but that is the first thing this songs lyrics evoked for me, they take us on a journey from being the young innocent, to becoming the mature adult tutoring the next young scamp in town, over woozy laid back country blues that has the right amount of repentance for this time of year.
Thou Art My All opens with the heaviest bassline on the album weaving with a light guitar figure perfect for the sweet imprecations of love and devotion implied through the slowly rising blues figure.
The Album closes with the funky strut of Dread Not The Ferryman go gentle into that night, like you know you've live a full and fulfilled life, monster guitar solo chases them across the American heartlands, on a demon steel horse, in classic American rock style similar to that mined by Government Issue.
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