Gary Moore - Back to the Blues
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Artist: Gary MooreEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-03-20
Music Label: Sanctuary Records
Soundtracks:
- ENOUGH OF THE BLUES
- YOU UPSET ME BABY
- COLD BLACK NIGHT
- STORMY MONDAY
- I AIN'T GOT YOU
- PICTURE OF THE MOON
- LOOKING BACK
- THE PROPHET
- HOW MANY LIES
- DROWNING IN TEARS
Music reviews of Back to the Blues
Music Review: IT'S BLUES ALIVE WITH BACK TO THE BLUES!
Rating: 5 Stars
Gary Moore rolls into 2001 with a solid return to the blues with his new hard hitting Back To The Blues on CMC International. Those who know Gary's Blues Alive/After Hours/Greeny & Still Got The Blues albums are going to love this new tour de force plate. Though only 10 tunes grace this album (6 by Gary & 6 covers)...This is a generous helping with Gary at times burning the fingerboard and yet playing as slow with a textured precision that is fueled with passion and grace that satisfies the soul. Gary produced this album but this time around the sound is very stripped down and bare bone, as opposed to the albums mentioned above (excluding the live Blues Alive). Yes there are echoes of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Rory Gallagher, Peter Green and Roy Buchanan. But you know what? Gary Moore is a master guitarist and a legend as well and the sound is all his own. His soul. His tune "Drowning In Tears" is a beautiful slow blues ballad with a mournful haunting guitar. On "Stormy Monday " & "Cold Black Night (another Gary tune) both have Gary turning up the fire and shredding the fingerboard. THESE TUNES ARE EXPLOSIVE! "Enough Of The Blues" may be the single but Gary's "Picture Of The Moon" is another great blues ballad in the "I Still Got The Blues For You" vein which could possibly get him another worldwide radio hit. Need a good dose of melodic articulate fret work? "The Prophet" a stunning instrumental is easily Gary's answer to guitar great Roy Buchanan's "The Messiah Will Come". I think you got the picture. This CD will be well received among his legions of fans. For new fans of his music, this CD is a great starting point. BTW: Gary is actually smiling in some of the pixs! A.
Description of Back to the Blues
2001 album for the guitar hero, as the title suggests, marks a return to the genre in which he excels both artisticallyand commercially. This album demonstrates without equivocation exactly why Moore is regarded as one of the finest bluesguitarists of the blues era. Ten tracks including, 'Enough Of The Blues', 'You Upset Me Baby' and 'Cold Black Night'. Standard jewel case.Guitarist Gary Moore is an anomaly: a testosterone-driven rocker with jazz and romantic leanings, equally at home pacing the stage with the Thin Lizzy boys, fusion riffing with Jon Hiseman's Colosseum or pouring out his heart in any one of the many versions of the same minor ballad that he keeps penning (represented here by "Picture of the Moon" and "The Prophet"). Mind you these are good minor ballads and no more repetitive than your average blues or country tunes. Speaking of the blues, with this CD Moore shows that he can also remind us what we liked about British blues in the first place: genuine feeling, great tone, and an energy that puts the electric in electric guitar. Those that miss the fire of Clapton's Bluesbreaker years will find it here. "You Upset Me Baby" shows that Moore can swing, and if some metal plod occasionally seeps into tunes like "I Ain't Got You" or "Looking Back" we can forgive him, for in a world blighted by way too much irony and cold craftsmanship, this man's honest passion is something to be treasured. --Michael Ross
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