Pete Molinari's fourth album Theosophy sits at that point where, as Muddy Waters put it, the blues had a baby and they called it rock'n' roll. Here soul, country, blues and rockabilly collide in perfect symbiosis. The songs tell tales of life, love, literature and compact the singer/songwriter's many decades of musical influences and his globe-spanning, wandering lifestyle down into a collection that is as uplifting as it lush, as classic-sounding as it is contemporary-minded.
Simply put it is the spirit of rock'n' roll distilled down and delivered in neat shots.
This spirit is there in the Southern fried spiritual of'What I Am I Am' and the stomping, shimmying sounds of'Evangeline', which conjures images of the Beatles reeling down the Reeperbahn at 3am, their heads full of purple hearts. It's there in the fragile Roky Erickson-esque country of'Dear Marie' and'Look To The Wind', or the early Stones strut and warm sun-baked Cornershop-style melodies of'I Got It All Indeed'.