NICK ROBERTSON AND SLICE : BULLET PROOF BOY

1. Mind Reader
2. Show me a Sign
3. Pride & Joy
4. Love, Life and Happiness
5. She's Looking Tired
6. Slice of Heaven
7. Kiss of Forgiveness
8. Reach out & Touch the Moon
9. Bullet Proof Boy
10. Punch a Wall
11. The Flame

Label : Circa Records

Release Year : 1990

Length : 50:12

Review (Amazon) : This is a very mellow CD, with a bulk of the songs being acoustic. "Show Me a Sign" is a pop song with some bluesy-feel, which just puts you in a good mood anytime you play it. "Slice of Heaven" is the only rocking song on the CD. It's a great tune that reminds me of old John Cougar. The best songs on the CD, though, are "Pride and Joy (Of a whipping boy)" and "Kiss of Forgiveness". "Pride and Joy" is a gorgeous, but depressing ballad with a great piano/acoustic guitar melody. "Kiss of Forgiveness" is another mellow-pop song with impressive lyrics. If you want some quality songwriting (even though the liner notes are full of misspellings), and a good solid, mellow CD all the way through-then this is it! Maria McKee of Lone Justice guests on here, as do several of the players from the Waterboys' "Fisherman's Blues" album. I'm not really sure where Nick Robertson hails from (with so little info on the man available through the net), but he does a real good job of mixing folk/soul vocals with a swampy horn-infested backdrop. Songs like "Bullet Proof Boy" and "Pride and Joy" are reminiscent of late '60s/early '70s Van Morrison, which is where I place this CD (as well as the first Counting Crows album) in my collection. Nudged right at the end of my Van Morrison discs... as in, "Van Morrison-esque."