Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar: Friday Night [Live]

Bryan Lee | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 4, 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Label: Justin Time Records
• ASIN: B0000021C9
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #76,709 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tabasco-style blues, November 6, 2003

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Mitchell Lopate (Adak, Alaska) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar: Friday Night (Audio CD)

At my high school reunion, a classmate named Kevin McMahon cornered me near the bar, handed me a CD, said that he liked my Roy Buchanan article-and insisted I needed to hear this guy. He was 100% right about that-Lee is the hot Daddy of Bad Blues and he commands respect. The story goes that Bryan plays in a bar in New Orleans and doesn't really leave the place-it's a home to him-and that special guests come to visit. We're talking special guests like James Cotton, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Frank Marino (of Mahogany Rush).

Quick!-my asbestos gloves, because what Stevie Wonder can do with a keyboard, Bryan Lee does with a guitar, and that is scorching good music. Oh, yeah, he's blind, too. We're talking raw, skin-it-alive Fender Stratocaster, folks. Can he sing? Nasty, raspy, and when he screeches, I swear the last time that kind of sound crossed my ears was in metal shop. The backup band's support is hot enough to melt lead, and there's five-yes, five more CDs available. For an extra treat, try his Crawfish Lady-both the music and the recipe are found on that disc, but I warn you: there's no putting out this fire with any known substance, because Bryan Lee is too hot to control except under his own terms.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better Than Naked Ladies (And Mango Daquiris Too!), June 26, 2006

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Dennis G. Voss Jr. (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar: Friday Night (Audio CD)

A New Orleans native, I stopped in at the Old Absinthe Bar for a Sazerac on my way to taking out-of-town guests to a strip club. There was a blues band on the stage fronted by a heavy-set guy dressed all in white. His voice was pretty good, and we were into the music, but when Bryan Lee ripped into his first solo our jaws just dropped. Maybe we'd heard that kind of playing on a blues CD once or twice, but none of us ever imagined we could just walk into a bar off the street, buy our "one drink minimum," and hear someone wail like that. His companion musicians were superb as well. My guests forgot all about the strippers. We sat, hardly talking to each other, until Mr. Lee left the stage for the last time. You'll never hear exactly what we heard. The blues bar was gone long before Hurricane Katrina, another victim to the epidemic of mango-flavored daquiris. But this CD is about as close as you can expect from a live recording. It's the way I'd like to remember my home city.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars this is the real deal!, November 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar: Friday Night (Audio CD)

This is one of the best blues guitarists alive today. This is a real nice sample of his talents with Kenny Wayne Shepherd and some other cool guests. Don't miss it!