Album review: Tuk Smith & The Restless Hearts – Ballad Of A Misspent Youth

Tuk Smith​’s old band, Biters, were an outfit so skilled in rock’n’roll it belied both their young age and the decade in which they were operating. We liked them so much we put them on the 2016 Kerrang! Tour. That band may have gone their separate ways, but Tuk is one of those musicians for whom the call of this stuff is just What You Do. So, here we see him return, guitar still firmly in hand and restless heart still somewhere in America – and his current home of Nashville will do just nicely – on a hazy summer’s day in the golden age of the late 1970s and early-’80s, slightly less wild sounding than before, but no less like a man simply doing what comes naturally.  Riff-wise, he’s obviously not stopped listening to AC/DC, but the overall effect here is more in tune wi...

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