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Orianthi — Some Kind Of Feeling (Woodward Avenue Records)

It was Prince who once told Orianthi ‘You don’t want people putting outfits on you’.

That sage advice has served the Aussie singer songwriter well.

And after celebrating her 40th birthday earlier this year, Orianthi continues to eschew expectations and reinvent the rock and roll wheel.

Some Kind Of Feeling is a self-assured, self-prophesising triumph.

A remarkable record paints a vibrant picture of Orianthi as a blues-busting, pin-sharp shredder with limitless potential — even after all these years — to burn.

Listen to Some Kind Of Feeling and one thing’s quite clear: one of the 21st century’s most exciting six-string talents isn’t slowing down any time soon.

Recruiting Kevin Shirley as co-producer wasn’t a bad idea, of course.

The Caveman boasts a canny knack for capturing an artist’s core DNA and filtering out any fluff.

Journey, John Hiatt and Joe Bonamassa are just a handful of the big names to have benefitted from Shirley’s safe pair of hands.

And Orianthi never sounded so good as Some Kind Of Feeling taps a rich emotional seam.

There’s a reason everyone from the late Michael Jackson to the grandaddy of shock rock, Alice Cooper, has recruited Adelaide’s ace in pack at one time or another.

Orianthi has it all: the looks, the hooks and A-list little black books. 

And in Some Kind Of Feeling she has the career-defining album to boot.

Orianthi: thunder from Down Under

Call You Mine’s a retro-soaked power ballad is akin to something Cher or Heart would have knocked out of the park in the late 80s.

And there’s no doubt Orianthi’s at her stunning best belting out stadium-ready anthems 35 years out of time.

The years spent rubbing shoulders with many of that much-missed era’s prime movers clearly paid off.

In fact, Some Kind Of Feeling’s Orianthi’s best work since RISE — her short-lived collab with former partner Richie Sambora under the RSO umbrella.

Countryfied set closer Heaven Right Here is peppered with flavours of peak Don Henley and Richard Marx.

But it’s likely many purists will point to Orianthi’s sensational hook up with Bonamassa on First Time Blues as the best music here.

There’s a crazy intuition at the heart of a classic track as the friends and peers produce something special steeped in muscle memory and mutual respect.

But even Orianthi can’t quite pull off a brave cover of ZZ Top’s Sharp Dressed Man despite a blistering take on a legendary solo.

Some Kind Of Feeling is a feast for the senses. Prince was right to preach creative freedom.