GLENN HUGHES

Hard Rock / Non-Metal • United Kingdom
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Glenn Hughes (born 21 August 1951) is an English rock bassist and vocalist, best known for playing bass and performing vocals for funk rock pioneers Trapeze and the Mk. III and IV line-ups of Deep Purple, as well as briefly fronting Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s. In addition to being an active session musician, Hughes also maintains a notable solo career, and currently fronts the supergroup Black Country Communion.

Hughes fronted Finders Keepers in the 1960s as bassist/vocalist, as well as the British funk rock band Trapeze. Hughes was recruited to replace Roger Glover as bassist in Deep Purple in 1973, though he considered himself a vocalist as opposed to a bassist. When David Coverdale was later hired as Deep Purple's lead vocalist, the two would ultimately share lead vocal duties in the band until their breakup in 1976. Battling severe cocaine addiction, Hughes embarked on a solo career following his
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GLENN HUGHES Play me Out album cover 3.00 | 2 ratings
Play me Out
Non-Metal 1977
GLENN HUGHES L.A. Blues Authority Volume II: Glenn Hughes – Blues album cover 3.82 | 4 ratings
L.A. Blues Authority Volume II: Glenn Hughes – Blues
Hard Rock 1992
GLENN HUGHES From Now On... album cover 3.88 | 4 ratings
From Now On...
Hard Rock 1994
GLENN HUGHES Feel album cover 3.62 | 4 ratings
Feel
Non-Metal 1995
GLENN HUGHES Addiction album cover 4.00 | 3 ratings
Addiction
Hard Rock 1996
GLENN HUGHES The Way it Is album cover 4.15 | 4 ratings
The Way it Is
Hard Rock 1999
GLENN HUGHES Return of Crystal Karma album cover 4.25 | 2 ratings
Return of Crystal Karma
Hard Rock 2000
GLENN HUGHES Building the Machine album cover 3.67 | 4 ratings
Building the Machine
Hard Rock 2001
GLENN HUGHES Songs in the Key of Rock album cover 4.36 | 3 ratings
Songs in the Key of Rock
Hard Rock 2003
GLENN HUGHES Soul Mover album cover 3.94 | 4 ratings
Soul Mover
Hard Rock 2005
GLENN HUGHES Music For The Divine album cover 3.75 | 4 ratings
Music For The Divine
Hard Rock 2006
GLENN HUGHES First Underground Nucler Kitchen album cover 4.44 | 4 ratings
First Underground Nucler Kitchen
Hard Rock 2008
GLENN HUGHES Resonate album cover 4.00 | 2 ratings
Resonate
Hard Rock 2016

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GLENN HUGHES Building the Machine

Album · 2001 · Hard Rock
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It is always a pleasure to listen to new music by Glenn Hughes, “The Voice of Rock”. His performances with Trapeze and Deep Purple in the 1970s have granted him a place among the greats in the Rock Olympus. Since then, Hughes has worked on a myriad of collaborations and projects, as well as pursued a successful solo career, with thirteen full-length albums of original music to date. Building the Machine is his eight solo album and was released in 2001 on SPV. Together with Hughes, who also plays bass on the album, we find his long-time collaborators, guitarist JJ Marsh and drummer Gary Ferguson, as well as keyboardist Vince DiCola, who provides some tasteful Hammond on several tracks. There is also a score of illustrious guests, including Pat Travers (guitar and vocals on Rare Earth’s cover “I Just Want To Celebrate”), Bobby Kimball (Toto, providing backing vocals on a couple of songs), and jazz pianist John Beasley (on the light ballad “I Will Follow You”).

There are not many surprises in the eleven tracks of the album. The music of Building the Machine reflects the love for hard rock, blues, funk and soul that Hughes has always professed throughout his musical career. Be it original songs or covers (Rare Earth’s “I Just Want To Celebrate” and Deep Purple’s “Highball Shooter”), Glenn Hughes’ trademark voice and funky bass grooves are the force that drives the music. Unsurprisingly, his vocal performance is huge. His wails and cries add sparkle to the muscular hard rock of the opening duo “Can’t Stop the Flood” and “Inside”, which are probably the best pieces of the album. Elsewhere Hughes puts in more soulful performances, like on the moving ballads “Beyond the Numb” and “Big Sky”, both dedicated to two friends whom Hughes lost to the demons of alcohol and drugs. But it is in another ballad, “Feels Like Home”, that the album packs its strongest emotional punch. This song starts slowly with a delicate acoustic guitar part accompanying Hughes’ soulful vocals, before building into a powerful bluesy mid-tempo that brings the track to an engrossing ending. The funk and soul influences appear more strongly on “Don’t Let It Split Away”, which features some nice vocal harmonies between Hughes and Bobby Kimball (Toto), and on Rare Earth’s cover “I Just Want To Celebrate”. The other cover, Deep Purple’s “Highball Shooter”, sounds completely at ease among the remaining ten tracks of the album, almost as if time had stopped and we were still in 1973, rocking hard with the rest of Deep Purple.

Perhaps paradoxically, this is both the main strength and weakness of the album. On the one hand, it shows that Hughes still firmly possesses that hard rock mojo that made him famous in the 70s. His performance is as credible and as genuine as thirty years prior, which is great to see. However, at the same time, there is nothing on this album that you cannot find elsewhere in Hughes’ discography. There is also no track that particularly stands out, with the exception perhaps of the opener “Can’t Stop the Flood”. The other tracks are all of good quality, but there is nothing that really sparkles and makes your jaws drop, especially if compared with the rest of the man’s discography.

Building the Machine is nevertheless a pleasant album to listen to, especially if you are a fan of this kind of blues/funk-tinged hard rock. It features some excellent playing and a strong vocal performance by Hughes. It does not add nor subtract much from Hughes’ considerable career, it is more of the same. But when the quality is as high as this, it is really hard to complain.

GLENN HUGHES Resonate

Album · 2016 · Hard Rock
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Resonate is the thirteenth solo album from former Trapeze, Deep Puple, Black Country Communion vocalist/bass player Glenn Hughes. Most of his best work comes from his more collaborative efforts from the afore-mentioned bands and not forgetting the legendary Hughes/Thrall album, melodic hard rock at its best. His solo career contains some fine albums as well as some patchy ones but all contain at least some good stuff. They generally contain hard rock, funk and soul music to to a greater or lesser degree. Resonate is his first solo album since 2008’s First Underground Nuclear Kitchen.

Whilst Resonate has a funky vibe and Hughes’s soulful vocal delivery, which is as good as ever, it ups the hard rock quotient and is one of his heavier solo works reminding me of 1996’s Addiction. Most of the songs have a slowish pace but plenty of groove and driving riffs and the overall consistency makes it one of his best. The injection of Hammond organ on songs like Steady, which also ups the tempo after the first four tracks, is a welcome addition. Songs like Heavy, Flow, God Of Money, How Long and My Town pack plenty of punch with strong melodies and hooks all with that stunning trademark soulful Hughes vocal delivery. He’s one of the few singers from the seventies era who’s managed to keep his voice as good as it was back then. Things don’t quieten down until When I Fall arrives seven songs in and would fit on his more soul orientated albums. Landmines would suit one of his more Funky ones but generally this album rock!

Overall then Resonate is as good as any of Hughes’s other solo albums and better than most, if not even his best yet. Any fan of the man should be delighted with this.

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