Year: 2017
Time: 39:26
Size: 90,4 MB
Label: Cranktone Entertainment
Styles: Blues/Blues Rock
Art: Front
Tracks Listing:
1. I Take what I Want - 3:37
2. Someday After a While - 4:29
3. Stealing Gasoline - 4:31
4. Dodging the Blues - 4:20
5. Good Morning Judge - 3:21
6. You Don't Love Me - 5:01
7. Stardust Blues - 4:02
8. I May Be Wrong, But I Won't be Wrong Always/Closing Time Jazz - 3:27
9. Oh Well - 3:20
10. Hard Times - 3:14
Carl Verheyen Essential Blues brings together four world-class musicians for a rare showcase of all things blues. Named one of the World's Top Ten Guitarists by Guitar Magazine and One of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time by Classic Rock Magazine, Carl now has 14 albums to his credit and is widely known as Supertramp's lead guitarist. For the first time in Seattle, Carl is bringing a four-piece band to Highway 99. Carl will be joined by longtime bassist Dave Marotta (Phil Collins, Neil Diamond, Bruce Hornsby, Manhattan Transfer) and the original CVB drummer John Ferraro (Boz Skaggs, Aaron Neville, Linda Ronstadt, Eddie Van Halen). Added to the mix is keyboard master Jim Cox, who has toured recently with James Taylor, Lyle Lovett, and Mark Knopfler. As Carl puts it, "Exploring the deep and wondrous avenues of the blues with this band is a very special experience for me."
Another brand new CD (street date is September 15) for all guitarists comes from Carl Verheyen. It’s called “Essential Blues” and is obviously a Blues album.
Blues is especially for us guitar players a genre which we like to listen to and also include in our playing. I think the guitar is the blues instrument par excellence.
Carl Verheyen plays what I would call intelligent blues, like Robben Ford or Eric Clapton do. Carl is one of the big names in the LA studio scene, he is member of the rock group “Supertramp” since 1985 and he has basically played everything possible (TV shows, movies, recording and performing with rock and pop superstars in the last 30 years).
But he has this love with the blues and this album is like a kaleidoscope of contemporary blues. We find songs from Peter Green, Alvin Lee, Ray Charles, Willie Cobbs and also originals from Carl Verheyen plus one traditional, all arranged differently in style and sound.
There are songs very straight played like “I Take What I Want” or “Stealing Gasoline”, some blues-rock in “Oh Well” or slow blues tunes like “Someday After A While”.
“Dodging The Blues” is a slow moll instrumental blues composed by Carl with an amazing guitar sound (reminds me a little bit of Pink Floyd).
My favorite song of the album is the Alvin Lee tune “I May Be Wrong” played with very jazzy intro.
The album closes with the Ray Charles song “Hard Times” with just guitar, bass, tambourine and vocals, also very beautiful.
The album was recorded live in three days in February 2017 and according to Carl, the “self inflicted parameters were: I would play just 2 guitars, 2 amps, do no overdubs and everything must be played and sung live in the room with bass, drums and keyboards. “. The result of these three days is a great spontaneous album, very compact but also very precise. A perfect example that it is all about the music itself, or as Carl said: I abandoned all the self doubt and just “went for it.”
Carl plays typically a Fender Stratocaster (this guitar is also the star on the CD cover) which has this sometimes a little bit thin but very distinctive sound.
As said, this is blues guitar album, it shows the different styles of blues that exist today all played in perfection. Obviously Carl Verheyen gets a chance to play great guitar solos but also Jim Cox on keyboards (piano and organ) shines as a soloist. This album gets a clear recommendation from me.
The other good news is that he will be in Europe in October and November this year, he visits Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. Details can be found on Carl’s website: https://www.carlverheyen.com/tour-dates/
Essential Blues
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