So, you are a singer songwriter from Kent but do you sound like you want to be a singer songwriter from Kent? In the case of Rosco Levee the answer would be no unless the Kent that he wants to be from happens to be is somewhere in a seventies American rock odyssey. Time therefore to break out the bellbottoms from Rosco Levee’s debut album “Final Approach To Home”.
Recorded to tape just like in the good old days, the scene is set by the opening song “Goldrush” that, not content with duplicating that fat analogue sound, reiterates that thematic search for redemption so beloved of cusp of the seventies rock bands. Rosco himself sings like a young smack time Eric Clapton – those were the days or rock excess – but throws in a gospel edge that takes him straight into the arms of Delaney and Bonnie. Along the way and with the aid of his studio comrades, he shows that he can do the proverbial rocking of the house with “All May Change Tonight” whilst handling more devotional concepts in “I Got Soul”.
Whether he runs straight down the highway of life – as with “Headlight Burn” – or stops for a quick hoe down in a wooden church – as in “Old Bessie”, Roscoe Levee keeps it unpretentious and true to the ways of past times.
“Final Approach To Home” is sure to find friendly ears amongst the rock faithful who know that the truth is always in the guitar.