There Goes the Neighborhood
There Goes the Neighborhood, like much of Roomful'soeuvre, is a fairly standard set of blues offerings with more than a hint of rock,  dripping with horns and studded with blistering guitar and piano solos. There's an  appropriate mix of mid-tempo tunes (Backseat Blues, Blue, Blue World, the title  track), up-tempo rockers (Just Like Dynamite, She's Mine), and slower, moodier  pieces (Lost Mind, I Smell Trouble, The Comeback), though all the material is  focused on light-heartedness and entertainment. If there's not much innovation here,  that's not exactly a problem; Roomful hums along like a well-oiled machine, every part  in place and never missing a beat. --Genevieve Williams