Kai Strauss And the Electric Blues All Stars - Live In Concert

Cat. no: CBHCD2046
Format: CD2
Barcode: 8713762320461
Release Date: 27 May 2022
Genre: Blues

Re-Release of the highjly successful live double album of one of Europe's most prolifc blues guitarists.In these live recordings, Kai Strauss vibrates with deep musical understanding and shows a real grounding in fundamentals and an instinctive urge to ft together the right notes and solos

- there is nothing here that is flled with uncalled-for, frenzied guitar lines. Nothing mechanical or out of place. His repertoire on this CD sounds as if it came from Theresa's Lounge in Chicago 1967. You can't actually label Strauss as Just another European and separate him out from American artists - he is too good for that. In fact, he's just about the last of musicians still jumping the authentic Blues with inspired fne blues guitar improvisation frmly grounded in that old Chicago-bred music that we all love. In choosing his songs or the appropriate intros, he shows the killer instinct that the old masters like Magic Sam had - Highway Blues is one example. Strauss' so good here it's scary.Clearly, Real Blues is embedded in Kai's skull, and I think he fnally did it and is steering himself fttingly. As BB King says on his greatest live recording: We're going to do our best to try and move you tonight – if you like the blues, I think we can." . Kai Strauss and his ace band will do the same here.(excerpts from the liner notes)

Tracks: Gotta Let You Go / Highway Blues / Ain't Gonna Ramble No More / Judgement Day / Did You Wrong / Hard Life / Get The Ball Rolling / The Blues Is Handmade / This Game Isn't Worth Playing No More / Let Me Love You Baby / Put That Bottle Down / Got To Be Some Changes Made / I Ain't Buying It / Shades Of Earl