Review: David Gogo – Yeah!
David Gogo – Yeah!
Format: CD – Digital / Label: Cordova Bay Records
Release: 2024
Text: Tom Wouters
Canadian blues singer/guitarist David Gogo started performing at the age of 15, after seeing Stevie Ray Vaughan play. Since then, the now 55-year-old Gogo has been on the road in business blues and has won almost all Canadian Blues Awards in passing.
On his 17th album, aptly titled ‘Yeah!,’ Gogo, accompanied by guest musicians Steve Marriner, Jimmy Bowskill and Gary Craig, performs ten raw and pacey blues rock tracks.
‘Yeah!’ opens with the solid Bad Company blues rock Diamond In The Rough. In the funky Hurricane you can hear that the gentlemen had a lot of fun during the live in the studio recordings. Well Worth The Wait is the Fabulous Thunderbirds at their rawest. Moose Hall Brawl and One More Day are blues rock going punk à la The Ramones, complete with screaming guitar, and effortlessly transition into the banging George Thorogood rock of Better Be Right. With You Used To Mean So Much To Me the tempo slows down a notch in favour of beautiful crying slide guitar playing.
Yeah! closes with Ballad Of Bad Boy Billy, bad ass country rock with beautiful steel guitar playing.
David Gogo’s ‘Yeah!’ is an extremely delicious raw blues rock album, splashing with fun!
Tracks:
01. Diamond In The Rough
02. Hurricane
03. Well Worth The Wait
04. Real Good Woman
05. Moose Hall Brawl
06. Give’er At The River
07. One More Day
08. Better Be Right
09. You Used To Mean So Much To Me
10. Ballad Of Bad Boy Billy
Website: http://www.davidgogo.com/