ROUGH & READY 04/26/2010 Where The Union occasionally veered

Where The Union occasionally veered toward the austere

including Catch A Fire their 1973 label debut

and hip hop

Gary Malabar

and brothers-in-Las Spencer Dunham and Matt Correia on bass and percussion respectively

ROUGH & READY 04/26/2010 Where The Union occasionally veeredROUGH AND READY is an important transitional album for Jeff Beck. Moving away from the amped up blues of BECK OLA and presaging the cutting edge fusion of BLOW BY BLOW, ROUGH AND READY is a mixture of gutsy, funky R&B, slicing, distortion heavy rock, and progressive, jazzy flourishes. The addition of keyboardist Max Middleton changes the sound of the Group, hinting at its future fusion experiments, yet vocalist Bob Tench keeps thing firmly grounded