Brian Olive: Two of Everything - review

(Alive)Brian Olive has his roots in the raw, guitar-dominated garage scene that spawned the Black Keys (whose Dan Auerbach co-produced Two of Everything), the White Stripes and two of his own alma maters, the Greenhornes and Soledad Brothers. What sets Olive apart from all of them is that he's not in thrall to the guitar. In the thrusting blues-rock of Back Sliding Soul, the guitar is all but buried beneath rollicking piano and belligerent blasts of saxophone; when it's allowed to surge up for t...

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