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Mike Zito's latest release "Greyhound"- produced by Grammy-Award winning guitarist / singer / songwriter Anders Osborne - is the continuation of the songwriting process established by Zito on his two previous and critically acclaimed recordings on Eclecto Groove Records. His music still retains its bluesy Americana charm while also emphasizing that dusty, big wide-open Texas sound. Here, we find Zito exploring more personal and introspective themes; inspired by the Greyhound bus that helped carry him on his way out of town as a young man, ultimately steering him onto his current pathway and direction in life... ~ eclectogroove.com
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"…his fiery Strat playing elevates each and every song, as do the swallow-your-emotions vocals."
- Vintage Guitar
"…one of the finest, most creative musicians on
the competitive blues-roots scene."
- Blues Revue Magazine
"His music flows into the veins and moves the body in ways that can
only be described as free and wild…"
- Jazz Times
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In Greyhound, hard livin’ highway man Mike Zito steps off the bus to hand you some rough-ass gulf-coast blues-rock guitar and vocals.
This is Americana: twangy vocals, layers of scratchy guitars, and solid no-frill diesel-driven tunes with rock-bottom bass and drum. Themes are classic blues - a love affair that didn’t work out, one that really looks like it might, running out of town - and time, down on your luck, second-rate motels, second-rate chow, regrets and no regrets. But there’s never a word of despair. And the only thing that gets bloody is when Zito’s guitar-playing - and that of his back-up guitarist Anders Osborne - rip it up.
Zito largely writes in the first person, typically a dialogue between a lover and himself, or you - the listener - when he’s preaching an object lesson. Like the confident simplicity of his chords and melodies, he needs only a few brush strokes to paint pictures and portraits...
~ By David Hayward, bostonblues.com
