Bob Davis, CEO of Soul-Patrol.com writes -Each year there are millions of new CD's manufactured by thousands of artists most of whom never had any business releasing an album at all. In the meanwhile, there are many examples of great artistry within our midst that go unheard and unrecognized. One such category of artists are those with a "dated sound". This is personally offensive to me as a music fan, because it deprives me of hearing the "best of the best", just because some "tastemaker" who wouldn't know a great record if it slapped him upside the head declared that something he heard sounded "dated" to him.Gary Lee - Nyne Songs (Funk/Blues/Rock/Psychedelic)
You know how some albums come with a "parental advisory" sticker? This album should come with a sticker that says; "If you are unwilling to use your mind please don't buy this album". Does anyone here remember the times when Black folks liked a group called Santana and it was cool? Well that wasn't so hard, because Santana was not only one of the stars of the Woodstock movie, and had AM radio crossover hits, but Santana gave plenty of nod's to Soul music on his first two albums. That's not the Santana I'm talking about. I'm talking about the Santana, starting with his third album that opened things up with voodoo funk, mixed with a healthy dose of Sun Raeque spirituality, all while keeping his rock base from about 1971 till about 1976. In other words not quite blues, not quite funk, not quite rock, not quite gospel, and not quite jazz, but something that touches on all of those musical styles. It's sometimes called "fusion", and that would be accurate, but not in the commercial sense that the term "fusion" gets used in most of the time, but in a more "organic sense" of the word. If you liked that version of Santana, then you will certainly dig the new album from Gary Lee called "Nyne Songs". It's all new music with a serious rock/funk/blues/spiritual groove that sounds earnest to my ears. This is music that you play late at night, you could be by yourself or you could be with a bunch of people, however it's not background music. It's music that commands your attention, because it's actually confrontational. It makes you either compare it to a ton of other music you have previously heard or it makes you turn it off. It's completely unapologetic to any radio genre and doesn't care about things like that. In fact some of it is even downright silly such as on the beginning of the song "Capurrmum", where Gary Lee takes the theme to the Andy Griffith TV show and makes it sound like something Sun Ra/Hendrix might have done. At other times Gary Lee sounds like a "southern rocker who spent a summer in Harlem". This album sounds "dated", but it's a whole lotta fun listening to it because it also exudes a confidence & optimism that could have only existed from about 1971 till about 1976. By the time the album is over with, you will find yourself smiling, yet at the same time wondering just what has happened to this world since 1976, that killed all of that confidence & optimism and willing to spend just about every dime that you have in order to get it back again, even if for only five minutes. However you also realize that we actually don't have to spend any money to get that kind of groove back, it really is just a matter of treating other people the way that you want to be treated. And part of that treatment means getting other people to listen to music with a groove like this, from another era, which is "mind expanding, without being mind altering".NYNE:1- INTRO
2- TRAIN
3- CAPPURRNUM
4- HONEY
5- TYME
6- NITEFLITE
7- SUNRAYS
8- FREEWAY
9- HUSANDA
10- MEMPHIS
11- METRO
12- ENHAWYEE
13- OUTROGary Lee
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