The Long Way

Albert Cummings & Swamp Yankee | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 2000)
• Original Release Date: January 1, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B00004SZIG
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #373,250 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Long Way

2. Lonely Bed

3. Memory

4. Hoochie Coochie

5. Mojo Workin'

6. Where Did I Go Wrong

7. Old Dog

8. Crossroads

9. Pull The Shades

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a MUST own., February 13, 2001

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Tom Branson (Nasville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Long Way (Audio CD)

"The Long Way" from Albert Cummings and Swamp Yankee scores 5 stars in each category I consider when reviewing music: vocals, musicians, material, passion, and sound quality. Cummings is an intense and gifted guitarist, SRV flavored but certainly not a clone. He is also one of the better vocalists in this genre. The band is a power trio and compliment each other very well. There are nine tracks here and each is quite good. If you like guitar driven blues/rock music you are definitely going to want to own this set.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good blues rock a la stevie ray, July 15, 2000

By 

Rkbluez "Steve A" (Somewhere In Rhode Island) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Long Way (Audio CD)

Albert Cummings leads his band swamp yankee through 9 tracks of rocking blue's chuck full of his tasty guitar work. Somewhat like Stevie but with a little cleaner tone. From the rocking The Long Way to the slow blues workout Lonley Bed, to the Skynyrdish Mojo Workin' his guitar is well upfront. The album has a very live feel to it because it was recorded almost soley in one two hour session. But don't let that stop you the production is crystal clear with good separation leaving alberts guitar work plenty of room to shine throughout. I can recommend this cd for those who like their blues rockin with alot of guitar work.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Drummer-KP, December 15, 2007

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Kenneth M. Pallman "The drummer" (Bennington,VT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Long Way (Audio CD)

I am the drummer for this project,and was the drummer for this group for

3 years. This album was not meant to be released,infact it was not meant to be an album at all,just a recording of a set of music we did at Bluestock in Memphis on Beale St. We had just flown back from Memphis,had

gotten virtually no sleep and went into the studio to record the material

for "our own heads". We set up,did Mojo Workin' to get the sounds(so it wasn't even meant as a keeper) and proceded to do the whole set in one take, with all "the clams" included,did a quick mix,and got out of there in just under two and a half hours. We were so tired when we did this recording,that we as the group frankly thought it was a very poor representation of what we truly were(in fact we thought it sucked!).

We played it for some true blues fans and they thought it was great!!

So, Albert decided to print and release it,and away it went and so did

Albert's career. The rest is history. I'm truly blessed to have been part of this project and his career on "his way up" I thank Albert for the fun,

tribulations,and all the emotions and experiences we had.-Check out the cd!!---Ken Pallman ps.thanks Don Chilson,you're a great friend and wonderful player.....I hope Albert decides to rerelease this cd!