{"id":5758,"date":"2008-08-29T04:08:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T04:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/?p=5758"},"modified":"2019-07-10T04:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T04:41:37","slug":"illinois-entertainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/review\/illinois-entertainer\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Entertainer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>NEW RELEASE PART 2 \u2013 CARRYING IT ON: The answer to Buddy Guy\u2019s musical question above can be found in the new release&nbsp;<em>Eyes Of The City<\/em>&nbsp;(Rocketnoodle) by master guitarist\/vocalist\/songwriter\/ producer&nbsp;<strong>Vince Agwada<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agwada is an exceptional guitarist who combines technical prowess with soul.&nbsp;<em>Eyes Of The City<\/em>&nbsp;is a blast of modern and contemporary blues, blues rock, R&amp;B, funk, jazz, and pop that will take you back to the 1975-90 hotbed of live blues in Chicago. From the opener, \u201cIt\u2019s A Shame\u201d (a funky groove featuring Agwada\u2019s flawless fretwork and dead-on lyrics, including a rap), to the closer, the title track (a sophisticated jazz\/pop tune reminiscent of a smoky \u201970s film noir soundtrack), Agwada and company smoke and burn through 12 originals and one cover, John Hiatt\u2019s \u201cConfidence Man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I first heard Agwada play in Toronto in the early \u201980s when he was on tour with Guy. Once a staple on the worldwide scene, Agwada retired from the road for a number of years to work in the studio, where he honed his technical chops at Chicago Trax. He has returned to performing with a vengeance on this, his first solo album, where he is accompanied by the best musicians of his generation. Harp guru&nbsp;<strong>Sugar Blue<\/strong>&nbsp;(who lives in Milan) guests on rocker \u201cRain,\u201d and&nbsp;<strong>Bill McFarland And The Chicago Horns appear<\/strong>&nbsp;on the jazzy, \u201cDoes It Really Matter?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agwada is a fully realized musician who brings his creativity to whatever genre he plays. He came of age at heady time in American music, when various musical styles co-existed.&nbsp;<em>Eyes Of The City<\/em>&nbsp;is at once an homage to this musical potpourri and a welcome return to the present of this gifted artist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2013 Beverly Zeldin-Palmer<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/illinoisentertainer.com\/2008\/08\/29\/whole-lotta-lovin\/\">Illinois Entertainer<\/a>&nbsp;August 29th 2008<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vince Agwada \u2013&nbsp;<em>Eyes of the City<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW RELEASE PART 2 \u2013 CARRYING IT ON: The answer to Buddy Guy\u2019s musical question above can be found in the new release&nbsp;Eyes Of The City&nbsp;(Rocketnoodle) by master guitarist\/vocalist\/songwriter\/ producer&nbsp;Vince Agwada. Agwada is an exceptional guitarist who combines technical prowess with soul.&nbsp;Eyes Of The City&nbsp;is a blast of modern and contemporary blues, blues rock, R&amp;B, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[179],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5759,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5758\/revisions\/5759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vinceagwada.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}