2015 – Free & Alive Records
By Phillip Smith; June 6, 2015
They say you can’t keep a
good man down. The same goes for Kurt Neumann. Neumann’s
most recent album under the Bodeans
moniker is a pure delight. Neumann
is the only one left from the original lineup, but he keeps chugging along as a
prolific writer and musician. I Can’t Stop contains a dozen original
tracks which just gets better with each listen.
Neumann leads the album off “Slave”.
Thick swampy blues-soaked slide guitar licks
which ride atop a cool tribal beat makes this one sound so good. “Oh Mama”, “Roll With the Punches”, and “Yesterday”
capture that slightly poppy rocking Bodeans
sound oh so elegantly. Songs like these
are what made me a Bodeans fan in
the first place. Emotions run deep in the beautiful and melancholy break-up
song “Beg or Borrow”. Accompaniment from the Junkyard Horns is an added bonus. “Something We Found” rolls out like a pop-infused
folk rock Mumford and Sons tune. This catchy-as-hell
song is quick to put a grin on my face.
I Can’t Stop
is rapidly becoming not only one of my favorite Bodeans albums, but one of my favorite albums this year.
