Speed Of Sound

• Format : Domestic CD
• Released : 8 May 2001
• Label : Eminent (EM-25090--2)
• Producers : Rick Vito and Rosie Flores

Rosie Flores

• guest appearance by Rick Vito

• Rock-A-Bye Boogie (Rick - guitar (left))
• Don't Know If I'm Comin' or Goin' (Rick - guitar)
• Hot Dog (Rick - background vocals)
• Devil Love (Rick - guitars, background vocals)
• Don't Take It Away (Rick - slide guitar)
• Speed of Sound (Rick - guitar)
• Somebody's Someone (Rick - lead guitar)
• Somewhere Down the Line (Rick - lead guitar)
• I Push Right Over (Rick - guitar (left))
• Country Boy (Rick - guitar)

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Number of Speed Of Sound (2001) Reviews: 1

	Old styles with new smoothness Reviewer: John Fitzgerald, Human resources staff database assistant       May 17, 2001 This is a great album, filled with all the best elements of 40's style swing and blues but stripped down to more suitable modern instrumentation, no horns and few fiddles, just mainly good old guitars, keyboards and drums with brushes etc. Some of the more uptempo numbers like the opener "Rock a bye boogie" & "Hot dog" have a "Boogie woogie bugle boy" feeling while ballads like "Don't know if I'm comin' or goin'" include a "Blue moon" type of mood. The Rick Vito penned "Devil love" has a slight bossa nova arrangement and you could picture Billy Burnette doing the almost rockabilly closer "Country boy". My favorite for now is the title track which is probably the most modern sounding but still strangely fits into the mix, with moaning keyboards dripping with moody atmospherics, you can't go wrong with this one. Flores at times reminds me of Maria Muldaur on her mellower moments from "Open your eyes" but this is not a bad thing at all. One thing is for sure, this will be hard to measure up to as one of the best releases of the year.

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