CD Review
Trevor Finlay Band
Show Me What U Got
by Danny Murray
Review date: July 2005
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Trevor Finlay defines the Ottawa Blues sound. Having attended the last three Ottawa blues Festivals and heard Trevor jamming with the locals afterward, although the mushrooms were just clicking in and my main concentration was more on trying to communicate with the girl beside me, who kept smiling at the bass player, her lover, I still paid close attention to what was happening on stage. Goddammit I am a blues journalist and can work under circumstances conducive to a better understanding of life, music, and hanging around in bars, which usually requires drinking, smoking, and trying to land girls that may tire of the bass player.
Ottawians love the crossover of rock/ blues, they love acoustic, and are always cheering for the underdog. Simple pure bass lines, positive lyrics. Ottawa girls just want to have fun. It is not uncommon to see two women walking down the street smoking a joint on their way to the bar. Who needs Molson, or for that matter Maxim girls, in a town where the girls are this friendly. Here the blues is a means to get to the dance floor and beyond. Ottawa girls aren’t backdoor girls, they are front door girls. Trevor understands this and displays it beautifully on this album. Not to say music is all about sex, or should I say getting laid, but it could be. This possibility is exposed, discussed, resolved, opined and generally alluded to on show me what u got.
This may be the best blues album out of the Canadian capital city that holds, arguably, one of the largest yearly blues fests on the planet on those first warm days of July. And Trevor is justifiably revered in the town that allows you to skate on its main waterway and eat cinnamon flavoured things called Beaver tails for the six months of the year that you normally wouldn’t want to leave the warmth of the stove.
He wields the ax like a truck driver, his rig, and the results are for you to enjoy. All songs on the album are original and reflect a blues with a positive vibe, a dance vibe that will lift the locals off the couch, and out to explore the cold Canadian north land. He lends a little melt to your cube, or since most Ottawians are government workers I should say he lends a little melt to your cubicle. In any case I will continue to buy the bass player drinks in the hopes that I am still standing after he falls down, and someday I hope to step over him on my way out of the bar, his girl in tow. Warm my cube.
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