RED ROOM - RED ROOM

Holy crap! It\'s Hootie! Oh, guess not. Damn. When that first track on Red Room\'s self-titled album started up, I thought for sure those were Hootie\'s pipes yodeling about having a \"Plastic Soul\". (Hootie was the singer, right? Or was he one of the Blowfish?)
Holy crap! It\'s that one guy from Matchbox Twenty! Aw, crap... wrong again. I guess you could say that if you dig any of those Hootie/Matchbox Twenty kind of bands (Are any of those guys still around?), this album by Red Room is right up your alley.
The musicianship is nice and tight. You can tell these guys know how to play. Probably the kind of guys who play in whatever-city-they\'re-from\'s most popular cover band. They\'ve probably been squeezing their own tunes into their sets for a couple years now.
If this would have come out a few years back when those other bands were hitting it big, I think Red Room would have really had a shot. But right now it seems a little dated. Still, I bet they do a killer cover of that Santana song that Rob Thomas sang on.