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Robert Bradley's Backwater Surprise: Time To Discover
ByBradley's life story is more incredible than fiction. When he got bored with his life in Alabama (where he ran a store for the blind), Bradley moved to Detroit and learned how to play guitar. Before long, he was raking in $500 a week playing the blues on sidewalks. In 1990, members of an alternative rock band heard the blind singer entertaining on the street outside their studio and persuaded him to jam. Occasional sessions evolved into regular gigs, and thus was born Robert Bradley's Backwater Surprise, a band that broke through with a hit video on MTV in 1996.
Time to Discover offers infectious hooks, funky guitar playing, modern percussion flourishes, and some wonderful soul-drenched singing by the leader. It also features Detroit rap-rocker Kid Rock, whose performance is comparatively subtle and doesn't ruin the proceedings (surprisingly). In fact, Time to Discover has little to do with modern rock or pop, despite some understated hip-hop touches. It's more of a cross between Sly and the Family Stone and Blues Traveler. If you dig quality classic rock with a blues bent, you should like this one a lot.
Track Listing
Higher; Ride; Baby; Gambler; You & Me; Take Love and Recieve It; Time to Discover; Ultimate Sacrifice; Mr. Tony; Tramp; Uncle John; Untitled
Personnel
Robert Bradley
pianoRobert Bradley (Guitar, Lead Vocals); Michael Nehra (Bass, Vocals); Andrew Nehra (Drums, Organ, Vocals); Jeff Fowlkes (Organ, Vocals)
Album information
Title: Time To Discover | Year Released: 2001 | Record Label: RCA Victor