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Outstanding Musician and a great album. A must have if you enjoy the logical continuation of late sixties and 70, Blues Rock. Great tone, Great Soul and as always the right choice of notes.

Gary Moore is one of those unsung guitar heroes, of which we have far too many of in this world. His guitar playing is impeccable; all one has to do is listen to his great "I've Still Got The Blues (For You)" to understand and appreciate the fluidity and soaring guitar licks. He is truly a master at his craft, but a guitarist nonetheless that hasn't had much airplay, for whatever reason.

If you love good guitar work, ala Clapton, Vaughn, you will also love the work of Gary Moore.

This is Moore's 1992 follow-up to "Still Got the Blues". Very similar. Best track is the simply amazing "Story of the Blues" with some outstanding guitar work. Another standout number is a Little Milton song called "The Blues is Alright" with Albert Collins sharing vocals and guitar. B.B. King also appears on one song.

I like this CD a lot. I've had it for years and still enjoy listening to it every so often. I never noticed before but I was listening to this CD at work one day (through headphones) and noticed a familiar guitar sound on "The Blues is All Right". I was sure I heard Albert "The Iceman" Collins playing on this song (like most guitarists, he playing has a sound of its own). So I looked it up on Amazon and lo and behold, that IS Albert Collins playing on "The Blues is All Right".

I think this is a nice blues/rock CD. I really like Gary Moore's guitar style on this CD and find his style to be bluesy - nice bends, slides, wah pedals, etc. on the guitar that help give it the bluesy feel. I like the female background vocals on a lot of the songs, and I like the horns in the background. I don't feel that horns or background vocals takes away from the bluesy feel - B.B.Kind makes use of horns sometimes, as does Tommy Castro, Albert Collins, Roomful of Blues, etc. I personally like both slow blues and more rocking, upbeat blues. I don't think blues has to slow and sad music. BB King said on his "Live at San Quentin" CD, "most people think that the blues is supposed to make you feel sad. But Blues can be something to boogie on too".

Gary has technical talent in playing the guitar and I enjoy the energy and feel of the album. I'd have to agree, though, that his vocals are nothing special.

Gary Moore is a guitar wunderkind performing a rhythm and blues style rock. The guitar solos are amazing in a technical sense but as is often the case gives up soul and feeling in the process. Someone like Stevie Ray Vaughn is able to put it all together, but Moore is not in that league. The vocals are great, and so are the backing musicians. If you want to hear a great guitar player in a blues rock style, Moore will not disappoint. But don't expect nuance and soul.

A pale copy of "Still got the blues". But "Cold day in hell" is a great song. The rest isn't bad, it's just that you've heard it all so many times before - but that's the nature of the blues.

There is no doubt Gary Moore can play guitar. His attempts at the blues have merit also. Somehow though, he misses the mark. I loved some of 'Still got the blues'. Same here. Unfortunately he likes to clutter the some tracks with background horns which rather spoil the potiential of those tracks. Still, some songs are worth listening to, but generally the album is less likable than 'still got the blues'.

Gary should stop to making blues recordings and go back to good old hard rocking. Blues (john Mayall, Robert Johnson) were realy great influences when he first picked up the guitar, adn his voice is well suited to the style. But on the CD, the compositions by Gary are really weak. "Still Got The Blues" is much better.