Review by Andy Smart, Nottingham Evening Post, 13 April 2007

DAVE TAYLOR - A ROCKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY (Midnight CD 607)

If you like your rock & roll to be pure and unadulterated, this latest collection from local boy Rockin' Dave Taylor is a joy. Beeston-born Taylor, a one-time Raleigh apprentice, has been banging out rock and boogie woogie albums for more than three decades, as well as performing all over the world. This latest offering on his own Midnight Rock label features self-penned numbers and classics like Blueberry Hill, Choo Choo Ch Boogie and Giddy-up-a-ding-dong, all given Taylor's distinctive honky-tonk piano treatment. Stand-outs include Dave's arrangement of Count Basie's Jumpin' at the Woodside, the Fleecie Moore rocker Caldonia, and an upbeat treatment of Mona Lisa, another oft-recorded song which gave Nat King Cole, Conway Twitty and Notts singer Shane Fenton (aka Alvin Stardust) varying degrees of success.

A Rocker's Guide to the Galaxy takes Taylor's album tally over the 20 mark and it is another irrepressible selection of the Kent-based Rockabilly Hall of Famer.

Out now!

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