Iron Man

Michael Burks | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 8, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Alligator Records
• ASIN: B0014DC0E6
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #71,379 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

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Michael Burks is a guitar slinger with a brawny tone, deeply emotional singing and rompin', stompin' blues power.

...he blasts through licks like Clapton used to play - think lightning - just because he can. He is a great guitarist.

Burks delivers blazing, explosive solos and outrageous tone...part rock, part soul and filled with plenty of blues sensibility

Product Description

Produced by Burks and Alligator president Bruce Iglauer and fueled by Burks' hard-driving road band, IRON MAN (featuring seven of twelve songs written or co-written by Burks) is an electrifying slice of emotional, rocked-out blues. His fiery fretwork, gruff, fervent vocals and overwhelming intensity are captured here live in the studio. The album features some of the hottest guitar playing and most soulful singing Burks has ever recorded. Burks wields his axe like a man possessed, breathing fire into every track, whether it's the charging rocker "Quiet Little Town," the chilling blues of "Icepick Through My Heart" or his sizzling take on Free's "Fire And Water." IRON MAN is a potent dose of contemporary blues, almost crushing in its intensity.

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars RICK "SHAQ" GOLDSTEIN SAYS: "SOME POWERFUL ELECTRIC BLUES BY THE **"IRON-MAN"**!", May 6, 2008

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Rick Shaq Goldstein "*SHAQ*" (Danville, Ca, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iron Man (Audio CD)

If you're an electric blues fan this CD is for you! Michael Burks combines both an authoritative string bending guitar with a strong clear voice. There are times during some songs he sounds a little like Hendrix and other songs like a more physically powerful Robert Cray. All twelve songs are winners with a total playing time of sixty minutes. It always makes the blues more intimate for the listener when the performer writes some of his own material and Michael wrote seven of the twelve songs. If you're an old time blues fanatic this will fit in the Freddie King/Luther Allison category and if you're a more recent blues convert and like Coco Montoya, Tinsley Ellis, Robert Cray, etc. you will thoroughly enjoy this CD also. The recording quality is perfectly crisp and clear and I recommend this highly.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best electric blues on offer!, July 11, 2008

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M. Bernocchi "mbernocchi" (Old Windsor, Berkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Iron Man (Audio CD)

If you are looking for a good electric blues CD do not go any further, this is the one! Michael Burks confirms with his new offer to be one of the major talent in the blues business today. He delivers a very strong vocals performance and an even better guitar playing in an album packed from wall to wall with excellence that surely deserve attention and consideration. An exquisite mix of the immortal Luther Allison with a hint of the great Freddie King is probably, as other reviewers have already said, the best way to describe Michael's style, however it has to be said that his music has its own personality and the sound is original and fresh. Backed by his regular touring band, accordingly with the linear note, the album has been recorded "live" in studio and I would say that you could feel it. Strongly suggested!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Michael Burks should be a major star -not just in the Blues world !, May 18, 2010

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Doug Clifford "WSKY Radio" (Gainesville, FL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Iron Man (Audio CD)

I've now seen Burks live three times and the cd captures some of his 'live power' His record company says he follows in the footsteps of Freddie King. I'd add Stevie Ray Vaughn. Check out his website [...] to see if he's coming your way and needless to say -DON'T MISS HIM LIVE !