Amos Lee, O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire - review - Music - Arts

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With his doleful face, acoustic guitar and a battered old truck of a voice, Lee initially seemed to be a high quality example of a familiar type. Careworn balladry on El Camino, warm harmonies on Supply and Demand and a tame take on heavy blues on Truth suggested that this was the kind of mature fare that was hard to fault while leaving you wishing for a seat by the end of the first hour. The advanced years of the drummer implied that there weren't going to be many fast ones.

But a long set allowed for enough diversions for him to show his worth as a pure entertainer too. Smoky funk number Won't Let Me Go offered the unlikely sight of his portly backing singer in a white suit, requesting that you "Let me get up in your English muffin". By the time he got to a countrified take on Queen's Fat Bottomed Girls, the party had finally started.

Amos Lee