2016 – Lex Grey Music
By Phillip Smith; Sep. 17, 2016
“Heal My Soul”, the sixth
album from the New York ensemble Lex
Grey and the Urban Pioneers, has quite a kick to it. Grey’s delivery is a force to be reckoned with,
as she belts out powerful vocal performances in this ten song collection of
original blues and straight-up rock and roll tunes.
Brian Dewan
joins in with his homemade ‘Dewanatron’ which rolls the red carpet out for the album
opener “Factory”. Grey gets downright
sultry on this bluesy track as Walter
Tates Jr. dishes out some tasty sax licks.
When I hear “Quiet Place”, I’m taken back to the mid-Eighties when bands
like the Pretenders ruled my
turn-table. “Ghost” has some of those same qualities as well. This cool rock and roll dirge hosts a most
interesting and ominous tone, thanks to Vic
Mix on guitar.
Bringing the album to a
close, is title track, “Heal My Soul”, which begins its journey with a slower
pace, and ascends into a wonderful New York groove. The song culminates by releasing oodles of emotion
into a swirling soulful jam.
