Whether paying tribute to Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Les Paul, B.B. King, or Earl Hooker, Vito has the tone and vibe wired. Distorted P-90 blues licks, snarling bottleneck fills, and jivey, slapback-drenched riffs abound, and Vito sings about Cadillacs, loose women, jail, and gambling-essential rockin' topics-with humor and verve. Plucked on an acoustic, Vito's snappy Gypsy-jazz lines add a Continental flair to this toneful outing. Streamliner. -Andy Ellis
In this swinging release, jumpblues and slide ace Rick Vito revisits the sounds he heard booming from Rock-ola and Seeburg jukeboxes while growing up on the East Coast. Whether paying tribute to Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Les Paul, B.B. King, or Earl Hooker, Vito has the tone and vibe wired. Distorted P-90 blues licks, snarling bottleneck fills, and jivey, slapback-drenched riffs abound, and Vito sings about Cadillacs, loose women, jail, and gambling-essential rockin' topics-with humor and verve. Plucked on an acoustic, Vito's snappy Gypsy-jazz lines add a Continental flair to this toneful outing. Streamliner. -Andy Ellis