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Stage’ is a solemn tale that brought to mind the latter works of the great Johnny Cash. The

album closes with both our lads in fine voice together once again on ‘The Road Of Life’.

This album is well produced and that production really brings out a nice clear and simple
presence to David’s guitar work which underpins the exemplary harmonica work from Johnny
who is indeed a true master of his craft. Their vocals really work well together and we could
have the makings of a modern day Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, a great acoustic blues

album please check it out.

Ged Wilson

Adam Sweet Band—Live At Crescent Records—Indepen-
dent Release

The Adam Sweet Band are from Exeter UK and are well estab-
lished in the south west of England. They are now building a
great reputation across the wider British blues scene and
beyond. Their latest release is entitled “Live At The Crescent”.

The album opens with a nice rendition of the Freddie King
classic ‘The Stumble’ and it’s no surprise that there is a hint
of Clapton in the guitar work. ‘Fall From Grace’ is a self
penned rock blues which brought to mind Aynsley Lister.

Another Adam Sweet tune ‘New Friend’ opens with a nice cool electric piano minor seventh
vibe that had shades of Steve Roux, really liked this one.

The Fleetwood Mac classic ‘Green Manalishi’ is swiftly followed by another Peter Green classic
‘Oh Well’ which really gets some extra drive from the Hammond organ. The album closes with
a slow burner ‘Evening’ which has lots of light and shade as you might well expect from a song
that is over nine minutes long with some hints of Gary Moore in there too.

Adam’s guitar work is exemplary throughout and his vocals are gentle and soulful, dare I say
sweet! Paddy Blight and Garry Kroll on bass and drums respectively do a great job of holding
down the rhythm section whilst Thomas Hughes really adds value on keys especially on
‘Evening’ and his lush Hammond on ‘The Stumble’ a joy to behold.

As the album title is ‘Live At The Crescent’ I was expecting this to be a gig recording but this is

more of a live take in the studio and as such I feel it just loses that bit of dynamism. Nonetheless
this is still top class rock blues from a band that is going places, go check them out.

Ged Wilson