Here I was tonight looking for something to save me from the depths of gloom, compliments of the winter storm currently slamming us with almost two feet of snow since this time last night. It's the worst snowstorm we've had in these parts in years. Old Rascal and I had just come back into the cabin looking for sure like the abominable snowman and pal snowdog. I jump-started the fireplace with a couple of handfuls of dry cedar kindling, stretched out in my Lazy-boy rocker and uncorked my laptop, scanning the screen as it loaded up the IAC page. Rascal had already curled up on his old Navajo blanket in front of the hearth and was dozing dreamily as he is most apt to do. My immediate mission was to explore and sample the music of Joerg Sommermeyer, aka JS. You know the drill - click click double click click click, and then you listen, waiting for the song to begin. As the funky bluesy "Twin Peaksy" intro to JS's cover of "Saint James Infirmary - Gambler's Blues" poured into my ears, my eyes lit up, honing my senses and perking me to attention. My thoughts of the winter storm blustering outside my window instantly evaporated. Saved by a song I said to myself. No sh*t Sherlock! No sooner had my musical mind computed and bought into the perfect enchantment of this haunting melodic intro when JS brought down the hammer so to speak - actually the "axe"(guitar) in this case, closing the sale for me with his equally, and perhaps even more so, amazingly bang on and uniquely distant sounding vocals giving this familiar old song a wonderful and refreshing new life. No question about it - I was hooked. From beginning to end, JS brings this traditional lyrical masterpiece to story-book life, telling it in a spellbinding anecdotal fashion accented by an endless supply of awesome and riveting riffs. Your years of performing shine brilliantly throughout this tune JS. You now have a new fan - perhaps two if we can count Rascal. I'm truly honoured to welcome you to Legendary Music. Added to station 3/9/2008 3:56:49 AM
--Neil w Young, Legendary Music, KIAC Internet Radio
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The opinion of a woman:
    Place blank CD on floor. Have superb bonk on 
    top. This is how  fantastic sound of Total
    O must have transferred itself to masterdisk.  
    Speaking as an American girl often dragged by 
    eager men into London and German spots 
    spewing eclectic jazz blues funk of the frankly
    horrid woman-repelling sort,  Total Overdrive
    was a brilliant surprise.  An eclectic mix yes, 
    but an intelligent finely hewn one that will attract 
    a woman with fine lingerie, not send her screaming to 
    nearest taxi.  Nice on a rainy Berlin autumn day?  Coffee
    will get you through that!  Ah, but tired of being alone 
    in technically superior monk's den with your Sartre 
    and bad memories? Then smarten up, blokes: this CD with its 
    warm intelligent sound is a very attractively powerful, 
    then mellowing, bang of wisdom, funk, and innately 
    clever interpretation. Has a subtle but unmistakable 
    smack of true Chicago blues club do-me downtown eros 
    to do the trick for you if you let it.  (Or if
    not, then you're really not trying.)  


    Andrea Etienne Harley
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This release is very interesting.
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I have a few thousand CD's. This one is beyond my expectations, so many different styles and much experimentation and it rules, it rocks and it flows perfectly in tune with the CD as a whole. Very Stylish! I'll be playing this one for a long time to come... Phenomenal!
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