Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, Rick Vito - Blue Again
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Artist: Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, Rick VitoEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-03-17
Music Label: Savoy Jazz
Soundtracks:
- Red Hot Gal
- Looking For Somebody
- Fleetwood Boogie
- Stop Messin Around
- Rattlesnake Shake
- When We Do The Lucky Devil
- Love That Burns
- Bayou Queen
- Black Magic Woman
- I Got A Hole In My Shoe
- Shake Your Moneymaker
- Albatross
Music reviews of Blue Again
Music Review: Blues Rockabilly
Rating: 5 Stars
THIS IS QUITE A SUPRISE. MUCH BETTER THAN I EXPECTED.
This album is 65 minutes long. It is all live, except the final track. The sound quality is very good. The album cover is cheap looking but there is a nice booklet that gives a quick and sometimes incorrect history of Fleetwood Mac (they have Danny Kerwin leaving the band before Peter Green...but Green left before either Kerwin or Spencer, although he did come back for a concert tour after those two left).
Of course you know that Mick Fleetwood is the drummer for Fleetwood Mac (after a stint in John Mayall's Blues Breakers). He was a blues drummer, before Fleetwood Mac went pop after the fifth Fleetwood Mac album (depending on which albums you count).
He is joined by Rick Vito who played on Fleetwood Mac's Behind the Mask album (after Lindsey Buckingham had left the group). Behind the Mask had a Rockabilly flavor to it.
This album is driven by Vito's playing and vocal styles and Fleetwood's history. You can see by the track listing that there are a number of songs that Fleetwood Mac played in the early days. Some of the songs were written by Peter Green (the first leader of Fleetwood Mac) and one is an American blues standard that the band used to play (they did a soujern to Chicago to play with the Blues greats). There are some Vito composed songs, and these are more Rockabilly than Blues.
It is a good selection of songs and they are all played well. And it isn't just a copy of the originals. The songs are played in new and interesting ways.
If you are expecting Rumors, you might not like this. If you were a fan of Fleetwood for any other time besides the Buckingham Nicks years you will probably love this.
I am very leery of rave reviews for this type of album. There are people who give rave reviews just on the concept and not the music. They say, wow, this is Mick Fleetwood going back to his roots and playing old Peter Green tunes, so it must be good. I thought it would be mediocre, but it is much better than I expected.
Description of Blue Again
Revisiting the blues and the blues-oriented classic songs of Fleetwood Mac, iconic rock drummer and band co-founder Mick Fleetwood has assembled a hand-picked quartet of musicians, The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band, who've created this stunning new live recording. Equal parts blues rave-up and loving homage to the early incarnation of Fleetwood Mac, BLUE AGAIN is a showcase for Fleetwood, who has teamed up on this recording with guitarist and lead vocalist Rick Vito, bassist Lenny Castellanos and keyboardist Mark Johnstone. This powerhouse blues project features versions of early Peter Green-penned hits such as 'Black Magic Woman,' 'Albatross' and 'Rattlesnake Shake' as well as original material composed by Rick Vito (with a rollicking version of Elmore James' 'Shake Your Moneymaker' included for good measure).Produced by Mick Fleetwood and Rick Vito, BLUE AGAIN was recorded live at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri in February of 2008. The immaculate recording gives the songs a vibrant, modern immediacy which transcends easy nostalgia. Says Mick in the liner notes: 'Over my career I've been called a pop star and a rock star, yet in my inner heart, I will always be part bluesman. On my journey from blues to a life of rock n roll, I've always remembered where I started.' BLUE AGAIN is both an original musical tour de force and a respectful tribute to Fleetwood Mac (in the midst of celebrating their 40th Anniversary), initiated by the sole member of the band to be in every incarnation from the beginning.
A companion DVD is scheduled for release in Fall 2009.
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