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Chris Bono:
Ten Senators and the Rebel Son
Sometimes an accident can be the best thing that ever happened to you. Chris Bono spent his youth nurturing an all-American dream of professional baseball. He was drafted by the Seattle Mariners and signed to the University of South Carolina. At the point when he had it all within his reach, he suffered two injuries that forced him into an early retirement. As Vonnegut would say, so it goes. However, if he hadn’t needed something to the fill the time during his recovery, he wouldn’t have picked up an acoustic guitar at a local pawnshop. The songs that he churned out during his rehabilitation are the ones that made it onto his debut EP, Escape. So, if baseball doesn’t work out for you, why not try rock ‘n roll? The music on Ten Senators… is harmonica-heavy country/blues rock. Weaned on a diet of Dylan, Zeppelin, Springsteen, Jeff Buckley, and Tom Waits, Chris fills the solitary position of a guitar-toting singer-songwriter. His voice is ideally suited for the genre, delivering his lyrics with an “I am what I am and fuck you if you don’t like it” attitude. His backing band plays hard and heavy, providing a southern rock flare to what could otherwise be played as stripped-down folk music. In general, Chris does a good job of digesting his influences, giving us a familiar style that is one part Neil Young and one part CCR. I’ll admit that none of the lyrics really reached out and grabbed me, but that’s more of a personal preference than a comment on Chris’s songwriting ability. If you’re a fan of the quintessential lone traveler sharing his worldly observations in a manner that’s personal enough to make you feel like he’s singing to you from your passenger seat, Chris is most likely worth your time.
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