Blue Me

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Thought the Track Listing would be of interest and use. 1. Blues Before Sunrise 2. I Woke Up This Morning, 3. Four Day Creep 4. Hit The Road Jack 5. Standin' Around Crying 6. One Thing On My Mind 7. Green River 8. Sinner's Prayer 9. Woman 10. Tore Down, 11. Summertime

Anyone a fan of leslie west in his mountain days will find this very different. It is raw blues but in a good way and some of the riffs are pure west. Some great old blues anthems and a couple of more contemporary tracks make this a good addition to any blues lovers collection.

Very pleasing to my old ear-holes this one! A great choice of tracks to cover and all expertly portraying Leslie West's style, tenacity and hunger for the blues and it's younger cousin blues-rock. I think I can say it's a long time since I've enjoyed all tracks on an album, even though it has a higher price than most cds.

What a pity rhat a talented and exciting guitar player is taking good blues songs and turning them into turgid and boring music. The voice is boring and the guitar playing even more so. Pity

Ex Mountain and former fat man Leslie West make take up less space these days, but that hasn't stopped him bunging out some quality albums. And this top notch blues album is an absolute joy. Aided and abetted by the legendary Aynsley Dunbar on drums, Leslie has come up with some unusual choices on this covers album. Yes, you get the well travelled "Blues Before Sunrise", "Tore Down" etc, but he also dips into the Montrose, Free and Creedence catalogues for some rampant blues rock. There isn't really a duff track on this album, just the primal howl of Leslie West and a hot, hot band. If you twisted my arm I'd probably pick "Four Day Creep" as the best, closely purusued by "Woman". If there was one track to get my skip finger working it'd be "Hit The Road, Jack", but it's a minor quibble. A master class from a master musician.

Leslie West, bon guitariste américain, longtemps fer de lance du groupe de rock-blues Mountain, nous offre ici un album de reprises mémorables. Standing around crying" de Muddy Waters ou encore "green river" de Creedence Clearwater Revival sans parler de "summertime" de George Gershwin, titre sublimé par Janis Joplin, des mélodies inoubliables sont ici reboostées et interprétées par un groupe soudé. Aynslay Dunbar, batteur reconnu, martèle ses fûts avec précision pour mener une rythmique efficace sur laquelle, Leslie West se lâche dans des riffs et solos inspirés, quelquefois slidés, mais toujours puissants et bien en phase.

Yes, this the Leslie West of Mountain (Mississippi Queen et al)and West, Bruce and Laing. He never stopped playing but blues tends to be cyclical in its audience appeal and the latest resurgence is well established right now (2010). "Blue Me" is a collection of the classics we older musicians grew up listening and playing to. The opening track, "Blues Before Sunrise" is masterfully done and as good as when Clapton did it on his album "From the Cradle", his best album in my opinion. #2, a Graham Barnes tune called "I woke up this morning", is an up-dressed version of this long-loved classic which was covered by 10 Years After. Of course Mr. West administers his own signature treatment of the song, like tasteful bends and vibrato at the low end of the neck and works upward. Most players Dive immediately into the "box" as high up the neck (where the pickups dwell) as possible and do incredibly long and often repetitive solos there and there's little difference among players. Not so with Les. He commands the entire neck like very few others. Les also treats the listener to Muddy Waters' "Standing 'round Crying", Sonny Thompsons' "Tore Down", and Lowell Fulson's great "Sinner's Prayer, all three of which were also covered on Eric's "From the Cradle" but the guitar work is truly unforgettable. Throw in John Fogerty's "Green River" and Gershwin's "all-time classic" "Summertime" and you've got your hands on the best blues record to come down that long dirt road in a long, long time. By the way, the great Ainsley Dunbar counts him in on the drums while a relative newcomer with tons of guitar talent, Todd Wolfe, backs Les up. Tim Fahey, Kevin Curry, Art Groom and Brian Mitchell are contributors to the magic in a big way. So, if you like blues and blues guitar, I recommend America's best '60's and '70's Guitarist/Singer, Leslie West. One listen and you won't be blue any more! Promise. Dan "Maggie" McGuiness, Bluze News Mag.

このアルバムまでに2作のブルース･アルバムを発表しているレズリー･ウエストであるが、その中でもこれはもっとも万人に受け入れられるアルバムに仕上がっている。何よりギターのトーンがもっともナチュラルで「master of tone」の称号にふさわしい色気に満ちている。アレンジも奇をてらうことなく正攻法で、かつ一つのルーツであるブルースロックへの回帰も感じさせ、マウンテン全盛期以来と言ってもよいぐらいのトーンにこだわったアルバムだ。様々な試行錯誤が一巡した現在のレズリー･ウエストの到達点を示している。過去のマウンテンにこだわる人にもこれは文句なくおすすめできる。ちなみに彼のボーカルは決してへたじゃないですよ。元々シャウト系のボーカルだが、ここ10年で表現力も見につけてこれまた聞かせるポイントが目白押しです。

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I have given CD this rating as I skipped 3 out of 11 songs on CD. This is my first Leslie West Cd & not sure what to expect. But I liked his Rock/Blues songs & coversGreat version of "Green River" original by CCR & Summertime.