The senior Hooker stood out from the blues pack due largely to his matchless voice (so sleepy, so lethal) and a guitar technique that made the most out of open spaces. In contrast, his namesake is, at least thus far, thoroughly generic, hardly straying from the electric blues sound that’s been prevalent for the past three decades plus. Cold as Ice isn’t so much bad as it is thoroughly unnecessary -- and that would be just as true if John Jr.
had a different last name. Hairspray: Soundtrack to the Motion Picture Loved the music in John Waters’s tangy original movie, and enjoyed much of the stage version’s original score -- and some of those songs survive recasting by Hollywood types; “Good Morning Baltimore” and “You Can’t Stop the Beat” are so Broadway brassy that they blast past the conservative, underwhelming arrangements imposed upon them by producer/composer Marc Shaiman. But there are plenty of other moments that inspire thoughts of tall buildings, open windows and running starts -- foremost among them “(You’re) Timeless to Me,” an excruciating duet between Christopher Walken and a draggy John Travolta, who definitely deserves a dressing down.
The senior Hooker stood out from the blues pack due largely to his matchless voice (so sleepy, so lethal) and a guitar technique that made the most out of open spaces.
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