CD review
 “Some Girls To Blame” by Dean Strickland

To start off, Dean studied classical voice, guitar, and jazz at UNT, which is a great school for music.  As most musicians he played in many local bands before his recording of this record.

This album conveys how much he loves and hates girls, but at the same time shows off his musical skills!  One song Dean is either saying he doesn’t like a girl or he still loves her.  It kind of works that way throughout the entire CD.  A lot of the songs on this album are all different musically.  For example, track 1 is a medium tempo song with distorted guitars that sounds like a typical song about a girl.  Yet track 2 sounds like an off spin of a good ol’ classic Joe Walsh song!

A couple of things that kind of set the album off balance was the drum programming and similar chord progressions (maybe I just indulge in more dynamic stuff?).

Overall I thought this CD was worth lending an ear to.  Hopefully his live shows will sound as good!

Cody Dulock
www.dallasmusic.com