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From The Performing Songwriter - July/August 1999 Bob Malone Bob Malone returns with the follow-up to his debut disc, The Darkest Part Of The Night, and the new album is more of his unique brand of funky, New Orleans-influenced R&B. The fact that he's Jersey-born and now living in sunny L.A. makes it that much more unique. Fortunately, genres don't respect state lines. As with his first album, Malone features lots of hot and heavy ivory tickling backed by horns aplenty. His gruff and soulful voice lets loose on tales of lovers ("Don't Tell Me Where You've Been, Just Show Me What You Know"); losers ("Table For One"); longing for home ("Goodbye L.A."), and a couple of great covers (John Hiatt's "Have A Little Faith In Me" and Loudon Wainwright's "Road Ode"). "Last Gasp Of A Single Man" is a funkified ode to those final moments of freedom before two little words take it all away. You get the feeling Malone will never write a song about tropical rain forests, and that's a good feeling. As he points out in his entertaining and illuminating liner notes, many of these songs were first recorded over eight years ago and available only on a cassette, but you'll be hard-pressed to figure out which ones are the works of a new writer and which come from the seasoned pro. They all groove with the same spirit and authority. Amen.
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