Track Listing

1. If You Be My Baby
2. Long Grey Mare
3. Merry Go Round
4. I Loved Another Woman
5. I Need Your Love So Bad
6. The Same Way
7. The Supernatural
8. Driftin'
9. Showbiz Blues
10. Love That Burns
11. Looking For Somebody
12. The World Keeps On Turnin' (Acoustic Version)
13. The Same Way (Acoustic Version)
14. Stop Messin' Around (Acoustic Version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27545 in Music
• Released on: 2003-05-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

CD Description
Over the years, Irish guitarist Gary Moore has played everything from hard rock to fusion, but one of his first loves was blues. Moore was mentored and inspired by legendary British guitarist Peter Green, founder of Fleetwood Mac (in theiroriginal blues-rock incarnation). BLUES FOR GREENY is his tribute to Green, and it finds Moore lending his distinctive fretwork to a batch of tunes from Green's Mac days. Rather than try to duplicate Green's unique style, Moore makes the tunes his own, but for most of the album the famed shredmaster is more restrained than usual. Undoubtedly a sign of respect for Green, this sonic understatement serves the tunes perfectly, and makes BLUES FOR GREENY one of Moore's most musically successful solo efforts.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant tribute & best singer impersonation of all time...
Weird but inspired, this album is dedicated to Peter Green, founder of the original blues based Fleetwood Mac, and is so clever that you really can believe that it’s Green himself - his songs, the guitar he used on them (given to Gary Moore by him, clearly cherished and beautifully played) and, most bizarrely of all, his voice.

Gary Moore has painstakingly produced one of the very best tribute albums possible - not only does it often improve on the originals (in particular “Long Grey Mare” and “I Loved Another Woman”) while brilliantly re-interpreting others, most notably the breathtakingly long work-out of “Looking For Somebody”, but it helped stimulate the great UK bluesman out of retirement. Reason enough on its own for serious praise but, quite regardless of all this, a brilliant album in its own right. If you're into classic UK R&B, don't miss it.

great tribute to a great man
This tribute to Peter Green and Fleetwood Mac is as sincere as you could wish to find. Using Green's famed Les Paul, Moore performs a range of his songs with admirable results.

Moore perhaps mimics Green a little too much, but in doing so he rolls back the distortion and demonstrates a controlled mastery of the instrument.

This is probably worth buying for Driftin' alone - an 8 minute masterclass in classic blues.

If you can still get it, the live video of the gig staged at Shepherd's Bush Empire is well worth getting, as Moore lets loose a little more, and does a great version of Ellmore James' Dust My Broom.

Blinding Moore
Well as anybody must know by now, GM loves Greeny, and you can tell from listening to this disc that he has poured his heart and soul into his playing. Fantastic, much better than his heavier metal playing of earlier years. Can't recommend this one enough.