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Mike Zito
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Blues Magazine
2018
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2018
"It's back. The debut album that blew up the '90s blues scene. The songs that announced the touchdown of a major new talent. In modern times, as an established solo star and former member of the globally acclaimed Royal Southern Brotherhood, Mike Zito's reputation precedes him. But turn back the clocks. Rewind the film reels. Slip through the wormhole to 1998, when a 27-year-old punk kid took his first shot in the studio. "Blue Room," he reflects, "is the beginning of me becoming an artist"".
Living blues
2018 December
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Henry L. Carrigan
2018 December
"There's a pleasingly busy vibe to the songs on Blue Room; Zito's distorted yet precise guitar lines often engage in dialogue with Byrkit's rubbery bass figures. The song structures hew fairly close to blues conventions, but the arrangements lean in more of a rock and (occasionally) jam-band direction. Yet Zito's economical writing style means that the tunes never meander or wear out their welcome ... the songs display brief flashes of rock-star pyrotechnics, but for the most part, Blue Room is a song-focused collection. Zito's raspy vocals convey the grit and sweat that went into developing the tunes, and there's a swaggering, good-timing feel to the entire disc. Both by design and necessity, Blue Room is the rawest document of Zito's talents, and the album's first proper reissue lets current-day fans hear what the guitarist sounded like near the beginning".