The Michael Landau Group - Live (2006) CD Rip

Tracklist

CD1

1. Worried Life Blues - 7:18
2. Sun - 6:16
3. Peaceful Ride - 4:55
4. Underwear - 7:03
5. 6/8 Blues - 9:29
6. Born in the Rain - 7:16

CD2

1. Mighty SB - 9:57
2. Ghouls and the Goblins - 9:48
3. Widow - 12:17
4. Johnny Swing - 15:22
5. Good Friend - 9:18
6. Untitled - 6:27

personnel :

Michael Landau - Guitar, Vocals
Jimmy Johnson - Bass
Chris Roy - Bass
Chuck Kavooras - Slide Guitar
Scott Kinsey - Keyboards
Toss Panos - drums
Gary Novak - drums
Ronald Bruner Jr. - drums

It's fitting that the name of the label that put out the 2006 double-disc live set by the Michael Landau, Live, is called Tone Center. Because tone is an enormous part of Landau's guitar playing throughout the release. Recorded over a two-year period in North Hollywood, the album's 12 tracks ooze with blooze -- especially evident by the crawling album opener, "Worried Life Blues" (which sees Landau alternate between spacious blues phrasing and wailing away at his instrument). The usual suspects serve as a main influence throughout -- Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, etc. -- but Landau is as skilled a player as any of the blues-rock revivalists of the early 21st century.