Espresso Logic - Chris Rea

Blue Guitars - Chris Rea

There’s More Shades Of Blue Here Than At A Quo Gig. Chris Rea – Blue Guitars 11 CD and 1 DVD box set with accompanying hard back book. Released October 2005 on the Jazzee record label This edition on Edel Records’ E.A.R. Books series. ISBN 3-937406-32-8 £31.00 from Caiman USA, via Amazon.com. Hey you! Yeah, I’m talkin’ to you boy. What y’all lookin’ at? What you want? Y’all wantin’ some blues? Well step right on up here buddy ‘cause have I got something real special for you? Hell yeah. How d’yer like it? Soft ‘n easy or loud ‘n hard? With finger pickin’ banjo or would you prefer a little of that honky tonk piano thang? Y’all from texas? Try a little ...

God's Great Banana Skin - Chris Rea

guitar played mournfully, then you hear a voice sounding even more half asleep than usual drifting into ‘Nothing To Fear’. God’s Great Banana Skin is another Chris Rea album. Like his other albums the songs begin slowly, and allow plenty of space for Rea’s fluid blues like guitar and his dark-as-a-dungeon vocals. This is many ways is Road to Hell Part 2, as this is the follow up perhaps its not surprising that he – perhaps unconsciously – keeps the same feel and rhythms. The same long lazy guitar so reminiscent of Ry Cooder and the deep south blues and that voice. The voice that sounds like it has smoked the forests of Cuba ...

God's Great Banana Skin - Chris Rea

For all Chris Rea fans this is probably preaching to the converted. If you like Chris Rea (and maybe have a few albums) then it is strongly worth considering adding this one. If you don't know who Chris Rea is (on emerging from your cave which has been your home for the last 20 years), then this may be worth a listen too! Following on the heels of previous albums "Road to Hell" and "Auberge" both of which reached the Number 1 UK Album slot, "Gods Great Banana skin" (released in November 1992) didn't quite capture the same enthusiasm with all CR fans, reaching only the number 4 positon. Personally I like GGBS (for ...