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 | Title : Slideways
Author : Rogers, Roy
Release Date : 20020326
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $16.98
Amazon.com Price : $13.99
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Editorial Reviews :
Blues producer and slide-guitar virtuoso Roy Rogers's eighth solo outing continues his exploration of roots music with an all-instrumental selection. Nearly an hour's worth of slide guitar is a rich confection, but the variety of styles and tones adopted here will keep the aficionado amused. A few of the cuts are simply grooves, rather than artfully prepared tunes, but the majority are blues based, and all are raunchy and uptempo. The opening 'Avalanche' is a gloriously sweaty blueswailin' stomp. Other highlights include 'Duckwalk,' a rocking tribute to one of the unsung heroes of the slide guitar, Chuck Berry, and 'There Is Only You,' which climaxes in a manner reminiscent of some of Ry Cooder's best soundtrack instrumentals. Meters drummer Zigaboo Modeliste lends a New Orleans flavor, and Snortin' Norton Buffalo's harmonica is a key foil for Rogers's slide throughout.
Buyer Reviews :
There's at least one sweet track ('If Walls Could Talk')on this CD and some great pickin', but overall it's not completely satisfying. Having heard the interview and that track on PBS I was prepared for a very different kind of album. So despite the great guitar licks it ain't more than 2.5 stars in my book.
This is 'drivin'' music. The rhythm is definitely on the move, and if you're cruising down the highway late at night you won't fall asleep! It's kind of hard to pin down the style. Sort of White Boy Blues meets early rock, cowboy meets Buddy Guy, with a sprinking of heavy metal style here and there. If this sounds like your style, then you can raise the rating.
The real downer for me are the acoustics. The sonics are not pleasing. Imagine taking Bonnie Raitt or the Allmans and letting a local amateur engineer, with a hangover and [ticked] at his girlfriend to boot, broadcast this one on AM radio, then pipe it into a stadium PA system, while you listen to it halfway down an access tunnel. This is over-amped, fuzzed, buzzed and whatever to death. Yep, not pretty at all.
True, I'm still listening to it, so it isn't bad. Frankly, this would sound much better when you're 2 beers or at least 1 whiskey into a blues club evening, but I wouldn't start your date night off on this one.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not dissing Roy Rogers, who is a very fine musician. It shows through. Just that he writes in the jacket blurb that he wanted to make it 'edgy' and he succeeds beyond his wildest dreams. Roy, my man, this could have been sweet....
(by A music fan)
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