Close as You Get
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Average customer review:Track Listing
- If The Devil Made Whiskey
- Trouble At Home
- Thirty Days
- Hard Times
- Have You Heard
- Eyesight To The Blind
- Evenin'
- Nowhere Fast
- Checkin' Up On My Baby
- I Had A Dream
- Sundown
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #18037 in Music
- Released on: 2007-05-21
- Number of discs: 1
- Dimensions: .21 pounds
Customer Reviews
Gary does it again!
Bought this along with the excellent Otis Taylor - Definition of a Circle - ahead of last night's gig at UEA Norwich. I am a GM fan!
Gary as always has put his own unique stamp on another great album which should form part of any discerning music collectors collection. He has an instinct for constructing great tunes and cover versions (his Chuck Berry is cool and Have you Heard - wow). New songs abound with some quieter moments as on I had a Dream - destined to be a classic Moore track and was played superbly live!
A good introduction to this master guitarist who deserves much more praise and recognition than he gets. I was a lifelong EC fan until I came across Gary's work about 10 years ago; Clapton is a great perfectionist and technician while Gary seems to feel the music much more.
Buy this with Blues Live and Blues for Greeny and you will have a great sampler of a fantastic musician. There is a good reason he is accompanied on tour by Otis Taylor; Otis is a great bluesman with some funky banjo - buy his album too!
if you can get tickets to see Gary on the UK leg of his tour it will be money very well spent - 2 hours of absolute bliss!
Am off to see Gary again on 9 November in Cambridge. Thanks Gary, and thanks to everyone buying his album who clearly persuaded him to extend the tour! If you haven't yet bought this album = what are you waiting for!
Good album, but no surprises
well this is a Gary Moore blues album.... if you've already got a few then you know what to expect!
Like all Gary's recent releases there are a couple of exceptional performances - 30 Days being the highlight on this one - but a few moments where it dips. At least there's no reworking of the Parisienne Walkways/Still Got the Blues minor chord ballad on this one.
As always the production is first class, and its nice to hear Brian Downey on the drums for Lizzy fans.
A very good ,if slightly patchy album from Gary
This is a stripped down, raw album for the most part and sees Gary getting as close to 'real' (purist) blues as he has ever done. This works though, despite me preferring Gary's more rocking blues. The first half of the album is a barnstormer but it does drop-off in quality during the second half. The last track, an acoustic blues, is unworthy of a place on the album in my opinion. It's tuneless & the guitar requirements of the song are average at best so Gary doesn't even get the chance to give us an amazing acoustic solo to save it. A bad ending to the album. Otherwise, this is good late-night Moore listening material and a worthy addition to my collection.




