trageser.com
Music Review

Home
Computers
Book Reviews and Reading Diary
CD Buying Guide and Music Links
Best-of lists
CD Reviews
CDs, sorted by Style
CDs, sorted by year issued
CDs, sorted by publication review ran in
CDs by San Diego bands
All CDs, sorted by band name
All CDs, sorted by album title
Interviews
Favorite quotations
Contact Me



Guitarist finally gets his chance

Sooner or Later
Sooner or Later
By Larry Davis

Bullseye / Rounder Records: 1992

Buy it on CD now from Amazon.com
Buy it now


This review first appeared in the September 4, 1992 issue of the North County Blade-Citizen (now North County Times).

Larry "Arkansas" Davis has long been one of the most undeservedly underrecorded blues artists around. Already famous among those lucky enough to have seen him live, his new release on Rounder's Bullseye subsidiary label should get him wider fame among those of us with children and others who don't get out much.

A sophisticated guitarist and singer, Davis' "Sooner or Later" has a strong streak of jazz through it (much like Chicago guitarist Fenton Robinson's work). No fretburner, Davis' concern is with finding the right note, not playing the most notes.

It's a search that's successful more often than not.