When this album goes for the throat it's just about unsurpassed as a roots / Zeppelin revival album. Heck, as an album period: some of those solos are stunning in their originality and aggressiveness, and when the tempo gets turned up the beats hit sharp and hard. But too much of the album is spent in honkytonk sway and crooning and Stonesism, and that side is considerably less successful.
White has gotten more and more assertive in his quest to update the origins of rock and roll, and I appreciate the more I learn about that era. But his strength remains the killer riff, and there's far too few of those on here 3/5
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