Gary Moore - Best of the Blues
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Free Music Review: great
Hit: 5 Stars
He keeps getting better and better. If you like the Blues, then you have to have this cd. A great addition to any collection.Free Music Review: Ripping Blues from the "Fretboard Master!"
Hit: 5 Stars
This 2 CD set is a tremendous value. He has the Nasty, Ripping, Blues tone going. I don't think he does a bad job singing either, I've heard MUCH worse. Keep in mind, his main thing is Guitar playing. It's nice having Albert Collins, Albert King, and B.B. King on there too. One disc is live, and one is studio. This is a "Safe purchase" for a Blues lover, who likes nasty guitar solos.Free Music Review: This is "The Best of The Blues"
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic cd!!!! I am a big fan of the blues but had never heard of Gary Moore until our local radio station started a "Blues" station. As far as I am concerned you more than get your money's worth with this cd.
Free Music Review: music is life
Hit: 5 Stars
In listening to NPR, I selected this artist's CD. I hadn't heard of Gary Moore before. It was money well spent. His blues guitar is what I was looking for. If an updated guitar sound along with old time blues [like the Muddy Waters era] is what you're looking for, this artist & ALB will do just fine.Free Music Review: High-octane blues(-rock)
Hit: 4 Stars
Gary Moore?! Isn't he the heavy metal guitar shedder who used to play with Thin Lizzy?
Well, yes, but Irishman Gary Moore also occationally responds to the calling of the blues. He put out his almost-classic almost-pure-blues album "Still Got The Blues" in 1990, and had a big hit in Europe with the title track, but he is still not particularly well known in North America. And that's a shame, really, 'cause Moore, who hails from Van Morrison's hometown of Belfast, is a very talented, versatile guitarist, a good composer, and an even better interpreter of songs.
This 2-disc set is a collection of Moore's high-octane early-90s blues material...it opens with his excellent, fiery cover of Jimmy Rogers' "Walking By Myself", and other highlights include the driving "Moving On", the funky boogie of "Stop Messin' Around", a fine rendition of West side blues king Otis Rush's "All Your Love (I Need Loving)", and of course the well-crafted original "Still Got The Blues For You", which includes an immediately recognizable main single-string riff as well as a fine melody. And the classic "Parisienne Walkways" is here as well, although it is more rock ballad than blues...Moore's bell-clear Gibson Les Paul doesn't need the backing of a string orchestra, but the song itself is too good for little things like that to spoil the mood.
The second disc is actually a 77-minute live album, and a really good one at that.
Opening with a thumping "Caldonia" which features both Albert Collins and Albert King, it duplicates many of the songs on disc one, but it is actually a little bit stronger, providing a more cohesive listen and a little bit more grit as well.
An energetic "You Don't Love Me" is really good, as is "Walking By Myself", a muscular "Still Got The Blues", and a ten-minute "Stormy Monday", again featuring Albert "King" Nelson.
The annotation is poor, but the music is generally good, although 31 tracks are six or eight too many. Diehards will want this set for the live disc, though, and more casual listeners can pick up "Best Of The Blues" instead of buying all of Moore's Virgin albums. There's plenty of good stuff here.