THE LINEUP
Albums
The month’s best guitar music –a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax
The latest Gary Moore collection uncovers further gems
Gary Moore
How Blue Can You Get
Provogue
9/10
A raft of unreleased tracks from the blues master
It’s unbelievable to think that 10 years have passed since the world lost Gary Moore and yet, as this album proves, there are still gems to be found in the archives. And listeners may be pleased to discover the tracks form a kind of Gary-bynumbers – in other words, there’s a little of everything that made the man the blues monster that he was.
You have the traditional side of his repertoire, such as scorching versions of Freddie King’s I’m Tore Down, Memphis Slim’s Steppin’ Out and Elmore James’s Done Somebody Wrong – with Gary on slide guitar – coupled with slow ballads in the Empty Rooms and Parisienne Walkways vein including the title track and Love Can Make A Fool Of You, the latter stealing the show with its positively volcanic guitar solo.