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Advantages: some great performances, good mix of songs Disadvantages: if you dont like the blues this isnt for you
soho live, is a 2 CD live album by peter greens splinter group, recorded at ronnie scotts famous jazz club. there are 17 tracksin total including famous peter green songs from his fleetwood mac days 'albatross', black magic woman', 'green manalishi' and 'rattlesnake shake'. the rest of the tracks are a mix of 7 blues standards and 5 songs from the bands robert johnson songbook album including 'travelling riverside blues', 'last fair deal gone down' ... ...quality is very good and all the musicians in the group are in good form here. Green has certainly regained his touch after going off the rails a bit in the 70s and 80s.
the stand-out track is 'the green manalishi' from Green's fleetwood mac days. it is a brilliant insight into a troubled mind and is a dark and brooding performance.
overall, this is a very accomplished album which shows all the different facets of green as a solo performer. ...
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Advantages: some blistering tracks, great traditional blues Disadvantages: a few too many dud tracks
alone with the blues is a collection of songs from throughout legendary blues guitarist peter green's career, including his solo work, tracks with the original fleetwood mac, and a couple of early bluesbreaker cuts.
this is a very traditionally blues orientated album. the highlights being some brilliant renditions of 'sandy mary' and 'jumping at shadows'. also included is a near identical cover version of robert johnson's 'kind hearted woman', which ... ...is very true to the original style and technically impressive. the rest of the tracks are of mixed quality. Greens career flounders in the 70s and 80s as he struggled with mental illness and he is obviosuly not at his best with songs like 'tribal dance'. the inaly has a good biography and track info, along with some good pictures. overall, this is an album of mixed quality that shows green at his brilliant best and his unmemorable worst. i would ...
