Album Review of
Memphis Loud

Written by Duane Verh
May 25, 2020 - 4:51pm EDT
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Victor Wainwright has assembled a concert-set quality stack of songs with arrangements to match.  The Grammy-nominated Memphis-based keyboardist/vocalist’s own boogie-plus piano work is buttressed with bold, brawny horn charts and strategic breakdowns that take the presentation of his roots-bound originals and collaborations to another level. The songs themselves run the range from festive-feeling- “Mississippi”, ‘Walk The Walk” to moodier regions- “Disappear”, “America”. A solid, best-of-the-year candidate.