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Perhaps best known as the guy who sang Robert Palmer<\/strong>‘s Power Station<\/strong> parts in the touring lineup of that 80s sensation (I refuse to label them a supergroup: Chic<\/strong> and Duran Duran<\/strong> are not<\/em> Cream<\/strong> and Traffic<\/strong>), Michael Des Barres<\/strong> does in fact have an impressive pedigree. He’s sort of the ultimate insider guy: he’s better known (and more respected) by people inside the music biz, many of whom have jumped at the chance to work with him. He’s an actor who’ll be familiar to any number of American TV shows (mostly in the 80s) and he’s well-known for having the former (Miss) Pamela<\/strong> \u201cI’m With the Band\u201d (Miller) Des Barres<\/strong> as an ex-wife. But hey, he’s got a new album, and it’s a cracker.<\/p>\n On Carnaby Street<\/em>, Des Barres’ vocal texture is closer to that of Rod Stewart<\/strong> than Palmer. But musically, he’s aiming for a good-time partying rock’n’roll vibe not far removed from what the Rolling Stones<\/strong> sounded like in, say, 1972. The title track, in particular, is a superbly driving affair that should appeal to fans of the Stones, Faces<\/strong>, Free<\/strong>, Mott the Hoople<\/strong><\/a> and other highly-regarded British rock acts. And don’t let the album’s title and Union Jack packaging fool you: Carnaby Street<\/em> is no exercise in nostalgia. Des Barres and his band \u2013 band<\/em>, I say: not anonymous studio hacks \u2013 sing and play like they mean it. Despite the sometimes stale and pedestrian connotations of the term, there’s a reason they call it \u201cclassic rock,\u201d and Carnaby Street<\/em> is a modern example of just why that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Perhaps best known as the guy who sang Robert Palmer‘s Power Station parts in the touring lineup of that 80s sensation (I refuse to label them a supergroup: Chic and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32295,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/32295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}