11052014 - The South "...The Further Out You Get"

The follow up to The South's 2013 album "The Further Inside You Go..." opens with the impressive and beautiful 11 minute piece "No Escape/Don't Let Go", a journey in laidback melodic mellowness that is as gentle as a summer breeze and just as pleasant, but with just the right amount of twists and turns to keep you interested. The following "Desert Sounds" is a similarly pretty instrumental that leads up to the westcoast-y "Glimpse of What We Had", a song that should be on the radio all the time this summer (and every other summer from the early seventies until the end of days), blending The Allman Brothers with The Grateful Dead and The Eagles! "We Got Lucky" starts off all horny (because it's got horns on it - get it?), and is another lovely ditty with a choir and everything! "Psb6u-Blues" takes its time to get to the vocals, but grooves along like a steam engine train and sounds like it should be a blast live! Closing this most excellent album is the near 13 minute all but instrumental title track, another exercise in Allman Dead-isms that never stoops to mere plagiarism, but is an impressive sojourn into the place where their musical heroes dwell. The South just did it again!