SOUL DOCTOR
For a Fistful of Dollars
Frontiers Records 2005
www.souldoctorrocks.com

What’s the 4-1-1?
The third release from Soul Doctor finds music soaked in a healthy dose of whiskey tinged blues.

Genre
Hard rock / blues rock / melodic rock

The Good
Vocalist Tommy Heart and guitarist Chris Lyne must really be walking in the shadow of the blues. Heart’s vocals have that great deep whiskey soaked sound to them throughout the album. Lyne touches all the right notes during the leads and solos. They even manage to work in the use of a horn section in two of the songs. The song “Ten Seconds Of Love” has a hot solo and “She’s Mine” features a deep groove you can’t help fall into. The best song on the album, however, is the closing track “Cheap Down ‘n’ Nasty.” It best reflects the blues rock aim of the CD. You can just picture the band playing in a smoky, dimly lit bar during this song.

The Bad
There is a rather unnecessary voiceover used on the song “The Trigger (Goin’ Downhill)” that grated on my nerves because otherwise the song was pretty good.

The Verdict
For A Fistful of Dollars is quite simply a hot smoking rock and roll CD. My opinion is that it’s one of the best blues rock albums I’ve heard since the one Cinderella album I like: Heartbreak Station.

Did You Know?
Tommy Heart is probably best known as the frontman for the band Fair Warning. He and guitarist Chris Lyne formerly played together in a band called Heart Lyne. The band toured Germany with Dio on his Killing The Dragon concert trek.

Rating: out of 5

-- Jay Roberts