Wheeler wrote all but one tune on Turn Up!! He kicks off the opening number, “Sweet Girl,” with a stinging guitar run as he sets the mood for what’s to follow. It’s a medium-fast shuffle that implores a lady to remain at his side for eternity. His single-note solos are accented by crisp horn lines and a fine, brief solo on keys. “You Won’t Do Right” percolates as it describes a woman who simply defies understanding by running around at night while her man sits home loyally waiting.
The funky “Yeah!” – about yearning for a woman who walks in to a bar like she owns the place – follows before Wheeler offers up a ride in the blues-rocker “Brand New Cadillac.” The mood turns jazzy for a complaint about a woman who won’t listen in “Talking To Myself” before the title tune “Turn Up!!” relates the passion the singer experiences whenever a certain woman is around.
The mood slows for the straight-ahead blues, “Nothing Lasts Forever,” about the frailty of a relationship despite the desire for it to survive. In this case, it’s coming to an end because the woman’s cheating. The next number, “I Can’t Do That,” carries the theme forward with the singer saying he can’t sit pat while the lady’s running around.
Wheeler delivers his autobiography in “Living My Dream,” relating how he picked up a guitar for the first time at age 16 and spent decades working by day and playing music at night, before he finally got to do what he loves fulltime. Next up, a burning guitar solo introduces “A Blind Man Can See,” about the end of a love affair. It precedes the only cover in the set, a fast-paced version of Little Milton’s “That’s What Love Will Make You Do.” Two more tunes — “I’m Hooked,” about love at first sight, and “Sad State Of The World,” a ballad about the tragedies unfolding locally on the TV news each day – bring the album to a close.
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