Music Review

Chance and Circumstance (1997)

EW's GRADE
A

Details Lead Performance: Neil Coty; Genres: Blues, Country

Newcomer Neil Coty grew up with a taste for the darker side of Bruce Springsteen and the anger of a kid whose mother left him on a doorstep. That synthesis of poetry and rootless intensity is distilled in his fierce debut, Chance and Circumstance. Coty sings with an exploding powder keg of a voice and weds blues, country, and rock like he was born for the task. Of all the pretenders to Steve Earle's throne, this guy just might succeed. A

Originally posted Aug 22, 1997 Published in issue #393-394 Aug 22, 1997 Order article reprints

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