★★★★★
Last time joyful noise proprietor Robert Randolph walked out the studio, he brandished 2010's star-studded, T Bone Burnett-produced
- www.austinchronicle.com
2014-04-10
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentTweetShare Families That Play Together... Slide guitar phenom Robert Randolph returns with a joyful and boisterous noise in Lickety Split, the artist's first studio album in over three years. Along with his famous Family Band, as well as some celebrity cameos by Carlos Santana ("Brand New Wayo," "Blacky Joe") and New Orleans wunderkind Trombone Shorty ("Take the Party"), Randolph hoots and hollers through the session not only with renewed vigor but, as expected, a...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-07-19
★★★★★
I've seen them live. The gospel-infused funky rock roots band that commandingly whips a crowd of drug-laced earth muffins and hopheads into some sort of a revivalist frenzy. .. that's the Family Band I've seen. If you haven't witnessed the fury of true black gospel music (from ANY denomination) in the church house on any given Sunday morning in the South, then think of the effect James Brown had on Joliet Jake in The Blues Brothers...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-07-16
★★★★★
Since bursting into public consciousness, sacred steel prodigy Robert Randolph has straddled the worlds of the holy and the profane. On the jam band circuit, the flashy performer has ignited festivals with his note-bending steel play, making them swell, quiver and thrash under his slide. Yet, at his core, Randolph comes from the church, and that gospel truth can never be washed away...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2013-07-17
★★★★★
I've seen them live. The gospel-infused funky rock roots band that commandingly whips a crowd of drug-laced earth muffins and hopheads into some sort of a revivalist frenzy. .. that's the Family Band I've seen. If you haven't witnessed the fury of true black gospel music (from ANY denomination) in the church house on any given Sunday morning in the South, then think of the effect James Brown had on Joliet Jake in The Blues Brothers ...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-04
★★★★★
For Robert Randolph & the Family Band, the three year break after 2010's somewhat stilted-sounding We Walk This Road was well deserved. By Randolph's own admission, their 280 date-per-year touring pace had taken its toll: playing music, let alone trying to find time to create it, had become a chore. Their Blue Note debut, Lickety Split, features an expanded FB lineup that includes vocalist Lenesha Randolph and guitarist Brett Haas; the group has gone back to its earliest recorded efforts for...
- www.allmusic.com
2013-07-26
★★★★★
The animation of Robert Randolph is incredible to behold. Whether taking in one of his six albums or catching the live experience, Randolph is perhaps the only artist equally at home on a summer festival stage or a Pentecostal tent meeting. Either way, there's no denying that a Robert Randolph release is a spirited affair.
Randolph's last proper studio release was a masterwork with T. Bone Burnett at the helm entitled We Walk This Road...
- thelineofbestfit.com
2013-08-05
★★★★★
From the supercharged opener "Amped Up," it's clear that Robert Randolph was chomping at the bit to get back into the studio after a three-year absence. Joyously high-energy performances have been Randolph's stock and trade since he first appeared on the scene in the early 2000s, but touring burnout seems to have curtailed his creative output recently...
- exclaim.ca
2013-07-23
★★★★★
The animation of Robert Randolph is incredible to behold. Whether taking in one of his six albums or catching the live experience, Randolph is perhaps the only artist equally at home on a summer festival stage or a Pentecostal tent meeting. Either way, there's no denying that a Robert Randolph release is a spirited affair.
Randolph's last proper studio release was a masterwork with T. Bone Burnett at the helm entitled We Walk This Road...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2013-07-17
Loading...
