Full Circle

Author: TROUT,WALTER

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 26-06-2006

Details: Amazon.ca Guest-star projects can be such tiresome affairs. Too often, the high-profile "friend" is nothing more than the record label's idea of someone they can feature on the front cover to generate additional sales. Additionally, these performances are frequently overdubbed, so the artist and the guest never actually come in contact with each other. Thankfully, neither is the case on Walter Trout's first studio album of new material since 2001's Go the Distance. Not only has the hotshot guitarist worked and maintained friendships with these players, but they convened in the same studio at the same time to nail these tunes. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of Trout's friends are guitarists who--like him--prefer to charge through songs with the intensity of a salmon swimming upstream. Joe Bonamassa, Bernard Allison, Guitar Shorty, Jeff Healey, Junior Watson, and Coco Montoya all share guitar-duel duties, and while the results aren't exactly subtle, there's enough explosive firepower here to level a small building. Even an acoustic session with Eric Sardinas--a neighbor of Trout's--attacks like an unplugged Rory Gallagher on a hot Belfast night. John Mayall (keyboards/vocals), James Harman (harp), Finis Tasby (vocals), Deacon Jones (Hammond B3 organ), and Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward also bring their game faces, and sometimes songs, contributing to various tracks with energy and intensity. Trout plays with his usual all-stops-out bluster, but there is an obvious affection for his guests on every track, which both energizes and spurs him on to new heights on what is arguably his best and most diverse effort yet. --Hal Horowitz Product Description Walter Trout returns to the studio with some of his most admired blues musicians to record what is sure to raise the standard by which all blues albums are judged. FULL CIRCLE features a who's who of the blues, including Coco Montoya, Jeff Healy, Joe Bonamassa, JOhn Mayall, Bernard Allison, Eric Sardinas, Guitar Shorty and many more. This album is a must for die-hard blues fans and a graeat album to start a collection with.

UPC: 710347111726

EAN: 0710347111726

Languages: english

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood