The music here runs the gamut from pure jazz to hard edged classic rock and at times borders on progressive rock. The vocals have an authentic and soulful edge to them. If there’s a part of the disc that could take some getting used to, though, the vocals would be it. It would be fair to compare Coleman’s vocals at times to those of Marianne Faithfull. People who enjoy Faithfull will probably have an easier go at taking in Coleman. Personally, I do like Faithfull’s music and can appreciate her singing, so it was an easy sell for me.

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The introduction to this is dramatic and rather progressive rock like. The song is a John Lennon tune and as it goes out to the song proper, we get more of a straightforward rock and roll approach. Coleman’s vocals are soulful and powerful with a blues and country sort of texture. There is some killer guitar soloing on this number and it’s a really solid rocker. It drops to an evocative piano ballad motif later in the piece. While the credits point to John Lennon for the songwriting, I can swear that this mellow section borrows from Pink Floyd’s The Wall album.

This has a killer classic rock texture to it. The vocal performance is powerful and there is some smoking hot guitar work in play. It’s a powerful tune that really rocks. It’s one of my favorites of the set.