Off The Floor Live

Amos Garrett | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: March 28, 2006
• Label: Stony Plain Recording Co.
• Copyright: (c) 2006 Stony Plain Records
• Total Length: 1:06:13
• Genres: Blues/Traditional Blues
• ASIN: B000S535RM
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #146,832 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Famous Amos!, October 21, 2001

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Rizzo (Nowhere) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Off the Floor Live (Audio CD)

The name "Famous Amos" is synonymous with tasty Famous Amos Cookies, but Guitar Player Magazine calls this Amos "one of the most lyrical and original guitarists today and his single note solos and melodic figures are so distinctive that it is virtually impossible to mistake them for anyone else's."

It has also been quoted, "Amos Garrett plays better one-handed and on an off-night than most guitar players put together."

As an extraordinary studio musician, he performed with Stevie Wonder, Chet Akins, Maria Muldaur, Bonnie Raitt, Todd Rundgren, and Emmylou Harris. In the early 70's he was a guitarist for the Paul Butterfield Band."

Recorded live at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, "Off The Floor Live" 1996, is a compilation of dynamic upbeat, and slower bluesy songs performed before an intimate enthusiastic audience.

Selections vary from Eddie Nobles "Bad Bad Whiskey" to Johnny Otis' "Willie and the Hand Jive" and Johnny Heartsman's "Goose Grease." Listen to the mesmerizing "Sleepwalk" from Santo and Johnny 50s hit. Garrett delivers in a bluesy jazzy style.

John Lee Hooker, named the inventor of "boogie guitar", is the focus of this conversational 12-minute entertaining number called "Conversation with John Lee Hooker." - Garrett reminisces about John Lee Hooker and how the blues originated.

Garrett includes Leadbelly's "Grasshoppers in my Pillow" ...I got grasshoppers in my pillow Momma, crickets in my meal.. Leadbelly, a folk legend, died in 1949 was a black Louisiana born who influenced thousands of other musicians.

Willie and the Hand Jive - a Johnny Otis rock and roll oldie has been a staple of 50's sock hop. Garrett adds some of the blues-based, snappy rock and roll rhythm he is known for.

You will get an impression that Garrett is an avid fisherman. Listen to the jazz-based "Wrong Lake To Catch Fish" and a softer "Just Like a Fish." He isn't from the bayous he sings of; he hails from Ontario Canada.

You will enjoy this entire CD. Entertaining! ...MzRizz

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Guitar player's guitar player, March 4, 2005

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David B. Erickson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Off the Floor Live (Audio CD)

Not everybody "gets" Amos Garrett. His solos can sound casual and offhand -- that is, until you try to play them. And that's why he's a "guitar player's guitar player." He doesn't dazzle. He's subtle. Even odder, for a rock musician, he's pretty unimpressed with himself. Consequently, he's never out to show the world what a barnburner he is. He just likes to play what he likes to play, and to sing in his foggy Hoagy Carmichael voice. I really like this recording precisely because Garrett does not make a big deal out of his amazing dexterity on the guitar. This is NOT Mr. Ultimate Speedfingers rockin' the joint. It is --dare I say this -- pleasant to listen to. Seldom has so much guitar technique been used to reach such modest ends.

4.0 out of 5 stars i agree with the other reviewer, June 28, 2005

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brian p mac neil (edmonton, Alberta Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Off the Floor Live (Audio CD)

i agree with everything the other reviewer says except that the cd was recorded over two nights at the sidetrack cafe - which is soon to close - i was there and it was great as have been his other trips to the sidetrack - and the folk festival.