Categories : Country + Western, Music Reviews, Rock + Pop.
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue |
Vancouver native Dustin Bentall first stepped on to the music scene in 2005 with his impressive debut release Street With No Lights. Four years later, his sophomore release Six Shooter proves well worth the wait.
Led off by the catchy, harmonica-infused ‘Railroad,’ Six Shooter starts strong and never dips throughout its eleven tracks. Bentall’s cover of Corin Raymond’s ‘Three Thousand Miles’ makes for the album’s most fun track, with its infectious chorus lyric, “I love getting high / and I talk when I’m stoned.” The standout ballad ‘Pontiac’ slows the record down briefly, but it’s at about the halfway point of the record that the tone really changes. Luke Doucet adds his deft touch with guitar on five of the last six tracks, with the spaghetti-western ‘Six Shooter’ and the standout track ‘Secrets’ that make his contributions the most strongly felt.
In assembling a strong base with his Outfit, Del Cowsill, Adam Dobres and Pat Steward, and adding additional talent from the likes of Doucet, Kendel Carson and Johnny Ellis, Dustin Bentall proves here that Street was no fluke.
