The four-piece Christopher Cash Band is a tight, fun-loving band of veterans from Southern California. Cash’s “Invisible” starts with the swirling psychedelic organ and sitar on the opening track “Morning Star.” It’s a great pop-psyche tune similar to The Grip Weeds with a vocal style similar to Pat DiNizio (The Smithereens) mixed with Neil Diamond. The following song “Not Going Back” has a haunting melody and subtle guitar work. The jangle and overall songwriting of the title track “Invisible” owes to the eighties (think an acoustic version of Psychedelic Furs) a little. Things get a bit heavier on the rock/blues “Empathy” with it’s simplistic anti-war message with a smokin’ guitar solo mid way in the song. “Blistering Velvet” is a catchy rock gem similar to The Smithereens and “Tangled in Wire” has some excellent metaphorical lyrics (“You’ll never fly with both feet on the ground/ You struggle and twist the more you resist”). Plenty of ballads are on the disc, like “Old Photograph” or the folky “Three Minutes Late” – they are decent, but not as compelling as the bluesier mid-tempo songs. “Coming Home” is similar to the Eagles or Tom Petty with an immediate hook in the chorus and my favorite song here. This is really good adult oriented pop/rock that has enough hooks and well crafted songwriting to make it a worthy purchase.
Amen to the nice review. Personally, even though the high energy songs sounded good, it really just whets my appetite for the ballads and/or just the songs themselves even done acoustic (is the adverb “acoustically”?).
So this is my message to this band: Grab the acoustics and start playing, we need you here in San Diego.
I’ve seen the band 5-6 times and ready for more.