Just One Night

just one night

     

The Taters bounce, glide, saunter, and otherwise transition smoothly between pop, country and roots rock. They clearly love all kinds of music and defy classifying their own tunes into set genres as they happily blur musical boundaries. Craig Evans, the lead singer/songwriter has a beautiful, engaging voice that continually surprises me with its quality and grace. His music and lyrics honestly move me. He has a timeless voice that I find enthralling, relaxing, or stirring; moving from his more soulful melodies like The Kiss (on Recess), and Explanation (Just One Night cd) to his jauntier tunes like Just One Night (the title song off the live recording), Without Your Love (Strange But True cd) or one of my favorites, Required by Love (Recess) Brad Tucker, the lead guitar player, is an immensely talented artist and master of his instrument. He is a truly striking player both acoustically and electric. But if that’s not enough talent for any one person, he has also been gifted with a voice that is smooth and highly enjoyable to listen to. All The Trouble I Need (Just One Night) written and sung by Brad, is an engaging song that captures you for repeated listening as well as his I’m The One on their Recess album. This group offers something for everybody; teenagers and their parents enjoy them as easily as a 5-year-old kid. Clearly it is music for all ages, which is demonstrated at many of their shows. If you can take your eyes off the fun the band is having long enough to gaze around at the other listeners you’ll see small children dancing up front as their parents and grandparents sit back and enjoy the music, as well as fans dancing off to the sides, seeming unable to sit still while the band plays. These albums are essential listening for any self-respected pop / roots music fan. I am continually happy to have discovered their independent music label off myspace and live near enough to travel to see them locally