#ANDREW MCMAHON INTO THE WILDERNESS FOR FREE#

#ANDREW MCMAHON INTO THE WILDERNESS FOR FREE#

The Marshall Tucker Band co-headlines.Īs drummer for Free and then for Bad Company in all its lineups, Simon Kirke is a journeyman whose work has been heard on rock radio since the early 1970s. Together, with a few assists from the likes of Charlie Musselwhite who joins in on the biographical spoken word, harmonica-honking Chicago romp of “100 Years of Blues,” the group rambles playfully through the swampy instrumental stomp of “Delta Lowdown” and a hopping, guitar-picking take on “It’s All Over Now.” Sometimes, it’s nice to just get away and boogie.Įlvin Bishop performs April 9 at Potawatomi Hotel & Casino's Northern Lights Theater, 1721 W. It’s a genial welcome to an album rich in the soul of the blues, as Bishop recruits percussionist Willie Jordan and guitarist and pianist Bob Welsh to craft a tight, lively trio. “Birthday Song” ends “Zombies” with enough restraint to round off the preceding bombast and enough drama to let McMahon belt it from atop a piano, as is his showman’s wont. McMahon’s voice is still in the vicinity of Dashboard Confessional, though, and he doesn’t hurt the grandiloquent tunefulness of “Fire Escape” by utilizing Walk the Moon-style chants. The “pop” part doesn’t need expanding: two sonic quirks that could’ve been pilfered from Bieber hits - one chirpily irritating like “Sorry,” the other plastically entrancing like “What Do You Mean?” - drive “Don’t Speak for Me (True)” and “Island Radio,” respectively, and “Dead Man’s Collar” is in the same city if not the same neighborhood as Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer.” McMahon’s second Wilderness album, “Zombies on Broadway,” could be expanded into a pop musical. If Andrew McMahon weren’t an indie-pop success, previously in Jack’s Mannequin and now in the Wilderness, musical theater would suit his prodigious, unleashed energies.

Andrew mcmahon into the wilderness