Guitar for Mortals

Adrian Legg | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 28, 1992)
• Original Release Date: January 28, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Relativity
• ASIN: B000003BVZ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #187,611 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Coging's Glory

2. The Netsman and the Laird

3. Mrs. Jack's Last Stand

4. Nanci

5. After the Gig

6. Seven Year Ache

7. A Candle in Notre Dame

8. Pieta

9. Anu

10. The Gospel According to O. Henry

11. Waltzing With Jesus

12. Chicken Licken's Last Ride

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Entry in the Acoustic Guitar Wizard Sweepstakes, January 19, 2000

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Steve Vrana (Aurora, NE) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guitar for Mortals (Audio CD)

My introduction to the music of Adrian Legg came just last month when I purchased Guitars and Other Cathedrals. While Guitar for Mortals is not quite as good as its predecessor, it is nonetheless an impressive follow-up.

The London-bred Legg plays with extraordinary skill and grace. Songs like "Mrs. Jack's Last Stand" and "After the Gig" are hauntingly beautiful, while "Waltzing with Jesus" displays the playful side of Legg's music. This collection opens and closes with the two most uptempo songs on the album: the chugging rhythms of "Coging's Glory" and the Dick Dale-meets-Leo Kottke stylings of "Chicken Little's Last Ride."

For anyone who enjoys the acoustic guitar, this album is a welcome addition. RECOMMENDED

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Stopped dead in my tracks, June 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Guitar for Mortals (Audio CD)

I was driving home from work on Sunday night, when on National Public Radio, Adrian was being interviewed. Then they broke into Mrs. Jack's Last Stand. 20 seconds later I was pulling off the road to listen. I thought it incredible. The next morning I went out and bought all that I could find of his work, and always get his new stuff within a week of issue. I enjoyed the rest of the album as well. This and Mrs. Crowe's Blue Waltz are in my opinion his finest. Nice for a mellow time.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars His sandwich album, December 8, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Guitar for Mortals (Audio CD)

This disc is not as powerful as "Guitars & Other Cathedrals" or the disc that follows it, but it contains some truly beautiful songs. There is a universe of emotion in his playing, but he's at his most powerful when playing slightly sad, hummable melodies ("Mrs. Jack's Last Stand,"A Candle in Notre Dame"). The intricacies in his music are as engrossing as the Shrapnel stuff of the 80s (sorry, I liked the assembly line of masturbatory players they churned out...ummm, some of them). Check out "...Cathedrals" first, though. "The Irish Girl" and "Cloud Stomp" are so exuberant and knowing and unique; they're worth being heard beyond the guitar nerd sector. Local radio station played them once, and I had a friend over whose face sort of warmed up when one of his more bouncy songs came on (if that other reviewer's claim that he's unappreciated in the UK is true, 'tis a damn shame).