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WHEN Mick Jagger needed a singer to voice a legendary bluesman in Vinyl, his TV show about the 1970s music biz, choosing Ty Taylor was a good call.

You can hear - and see - soul greats Otis Redding, James Brown and Al Green in the charismatic, hyperactive Vintage Trouble frontman.

Add a guitar/bass/drums set-up that play like Led Zep, but without the bombast, and you realise why this swaggering outfit's retro mix of soul and rock is winning plaudits.

Still, this storming final show of the Californians' UK tour wasn't without problems. Faulty sound meant we couldn't hear Taylor's superb voice on opener Run Like The River.

Once it was sorted, the band ripped through a 90-minute set that mixed appealing rockers (Blues Hand Me Down, Jezzebella, Nancy Lee) with touching ballads (Not Alright With Me, Another Man's Words).

Taylor channelled his inner Godfather Of Soul by walking through the audience, climbing on the back bar to sing, then crowd surfing.

If there's a "but", it's that Vintage Trouble may sail close to Lenny Kravitz-style pastiche.

Still, you have to have something to turn the Concorde into a cross between a 1960s juke joint and a Southern Baptist church service. And most people came away as true believers.