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Titles: The Arizona freaks of Hogjaw come back for a fourth album with a varied register. Of course their credo goes to a high energy full of volts hard Southern Rock well in tune with the present time, but our four robust fellows also know how to command respect with a music that ventures in the depths of an old school Southern Rock that was really present in their former opus Sons of The Western Skies. With the long sequence « Look to The Sky » and « Everyone Goin’ Fishin’ » whose sax part gave a pleasant surprise to the old Southern rockers as model, this If It Ain’t Broke differs by a more classical but not without interest stature, with an all-out attack opening on « One More Little One » which is a swinging boogie in a line close to Steve Gaines' « I Know a Little », but more winged, where Kreg Self's guitar expresses itself without any restraint. « Built My Prize » and « Am I Wrong » sound like authentic Hogjaw with a perfect guitars' flight on « Am I Wrong » that makes of it one of the primordial pieces of the CD with the jewel of the album, « Shiny Brass », some excellent progressive hard Southern Rock. I think that the members of Hogjaw know ASHBURY, the brothers Randy et Rob Davis' band that is also from Tucson Arizona, and its 1983 vintage album Endless Skies because this « Shiny Brass » clearly pitches to this musical side, but of course in a more biting way, a progressive sound that we also find in the long daring sequences and in an infrequent style in the Southern Rock especially the part 2 of The Wolf (The Wolf Part 1 & 2) that will throw the typical Southern rocker, but don't worry, Hogjaw cranks again a notch with some very thick, some coarse that dirties on the three furious hard southern boogie titles namely « Devil's Eyes », « '83 », « Beer Guzzlin 'Merican » that conclude this sparkling washer. |
