ARTiST: Gary Moore
TiTLE: Close As You Get
LABEL: Eagle Rock
GENRE: Blues
TiME: 51:50 min
SiZE: 60,7 MB
BiTRATE: VBRkbps
RiP DATE: Apr-12-2007
RELEASE DATE: May-21-2007
WEBSiTE: www.gary-moore.com
Track List:
01. If The Devil Made Whisky 02:48
02. Trouble At Home 05:00
03. Thirty Days 03:16
04. Hard Times 03:05
05. Have You Heard 05:50
06. Eyesight To The Blind 02:35
07. Evenin' 05:48
08. Nowhere Fast 03:39
09. Checkin' Up On My Baby 05:24
10. I Had A Dream 07:17
11. Sundown 07:08
Release Notes:
æClose As You GetÆ from Irish Blues-Rock guitarist
Gary Moore ups the blues ante of his Æ06 Old New
Ballads Blues into a cohesive stripped-down
blues-rock machine. Whether interpreting jump blues
and urban blues classics (Chuck BerryÆs ôThirty
Daysö and Sonny Boy WilliamsonÆs ôEyesight To The
Blindö) or giving voice to his own compositions,
Moore has been an amazingly consistent
singer/songwriter/performer, ever since his
emergence from the British Isles in the 1960s.
His work in Thin Lizzy and in Colosseum II (longtime
Thin Lizzy drummer Brian Downey can be heard on
æClose As You GetÆ) endeared Moore to more than one
generation. He has continued to gravitate towards
the earthy emotion-packed centers of gutbucket
barrelhouse bluesÆnÆboogie in his solo work, of
which æClose As You GetÆ absolutely revels in.
Born Robert Williams Gary Moore in Belfast Ireland,
the guitarist quickly fell under the sway of the
pre-Fleetwood Mac Peter Green, whom he emulated when
Green was a John Mayall Bluesbreaker, and with whom
he shared a close friendship. Another mate, the late
Phil Lynott, became his uppermost musical foil in
Thin Lizzy when the sound of MooreÆs bluesy licks
accentuated perfectly LynottÆs low growl to produce
some of Thin LizzyÆs most memorable moments.
But it was the blues that kept dragging Moore back
into its warm embrace. From 1973Æs Grinding Stone to
1990Æs æStill Got The BluesÆ (with Albert Collins,
Albert King and BB King), and on to 2004Æs æPower Of
The Blues,Æ Moore hasnÆt deviated from his true
calling.
æClose As You GetÆ is intimate, infused with a
purposeful nod to his influences, yet filled with
the kind of chiseled bravado that only experience
can afford.