Living Colour's Fierce New Record Throws Shade on Lesser Bands

WHILE EARLY reports have pegged Living Colour's upcoming sixth studio release, Shade, as "a blues-based record", let's be clear about something. It is not an effort in the vein of what the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton or Gregg Allman have done with their similar experiments that included covers of genre classics and new material that sounded classic.