Shadow & The Thrill featuring former Great White bassist and current Jack Russell’s Great White guitarist / keyboardist Tony Montana will be releasing their debut album Sugarbowl via Deko Entertainment on August 14, 2020.
Title track “Sugarbowl” is one of my favorites, a bluesy midtempo melodic rocker with the feel of Night Ranger’s album Feeding Off The Mojo, atmospheric, meaty, where Cardenas-Montana’s pristine voice shines.
“Misery” is a gargantuan-sounding slice of soulfully sinuous groove-based blues rock, at places resembling Badlands. There’s a kicking energy to “Shake the Devil”, and we have a wild cover of Tommy Bolin’s “The Grind,” greatly arranged and executed.
We have as well an incredible rendition of Gnarls Barkley’s, “Crazy”, done in heavy-blues ballad mode. This version brings to mind Gary Moore for sure.
I’m sold. Shadow & The Thrill are the real deal, authentic, timeless bluesy based with a melodic, slight hard rock edge from the soul. Both musicians deliver terrific performances, and production is top notch.
Track List for Sugarbowl:
01. Lovesong
02. Misery
03. The Grind
04. Sugarbowl
05. Ready To Roll
06. Just Enough
07. Crazy
08. Mississippi
09. Unaware
LP only:
10. Sugarbowl (acoustic)
Lead Vocals, All Guitars, Bass, Harmonica:
Tony Cardenas-Montana (Great White, Slash, Jack Russell’s Great White)
Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, B3 Organ:
Brentt James Arcement (Fiona Apple, BulletBoys)