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Outside Looking in

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This sixth album of this "monster"of slide guitar makes me feel so better and happier than ever!!!Great return Hole.The other reviewer resumed in one word all of the intensity of this cd,and i agreed "TRIUMPHANT"!!!!!! When i've heard Outside Looking In,with the other interpretation to "It Hurts me too",i've tought you've done so right.It touch me inside my soul with rare feelings! This is an album to be heard for so long long many times... An album of a blues guitar man with his own way to play slide guitar,like only few men ever did with this competency!!! Great album Hole,and of course all of your fans at all of the corners in the world...they're happier than never!!! Thanks a LOT!!!!!

Six albums in and Australia's Dave Hole has yet to stumble. "Outside Looking In" continues the grand tradition established with the slide god's Alligator debut "Short Fuse Blues." Although Hole seems to fill every available space with steel on strings, it never gets tiresome. Employing a rather unorthodox style which sees him approach the fretboard with his slide hand over the top rather than underneath, Hole's name certainly deserves to be mentioned alongside those of legends like Elmore James and Duane Allman. Razor sharp assaults like "He Knows The Rules" and "Jenny Lee" strike like lightning and herald Hole's arrival as perhaps the greatest living practitioner of slide guitar blues. Triumphant...

This cd has multiple personality disorder. Played at normal, quiet levels, it is a good, but not superb recording featuring lots of good slide guitar work from what sounds like an interesting, innovative guitarist.

Turn up the volume loud, and the brilliance of Hole's playing really starts to shine through. There is a subtle resonance that is simultaneously sweet and sour that shines through at higher volume levels. The two best tracks on this cd are Jenny Lee (appears on Alligator's 30th Anniversary CD - a very good collection by the way) and an excellent version of BB King and Canned Heat's You Move Me So.

If Hole is touring within a two-day drive of your home, go see him live (unfortunately, he is presently finishing up his US tour and will be heading back to Australia in a few days). Hole is the most entertaining, brilliant guitarist I have ever seen (out of >200+ live shows). His guitarwork is so lively, exciting, tight and innovative that it is impossible for any fan of slide guitar, blues or rock to avoid head-nodding and toe tapping or just plain grinning. Not to mention his showmanship - he jumps and slides across stage like he was 23, not his true age of 53. Fantastic.

Support quality music. Buy this cd and see Dave live; it would be worth the price of a ticket to Australia to see him play.