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Steven Tyler, Bill Wyman, Noel Gallagher, Neil Finn, Kirk Hammett as well as original Mac slide
guitarist Jeremy Spencer.

I was lucky enough to see Peter Green playing with John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and also be present
in 1967 at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival to see the debut performance of Fleetwood Mac. I
saw Peter with Fleetwood Mac more than any other group and fifty years later I’m still listening to

Peter’s music, so I should be all over this record but I’m afraid that I found lots of it a bit mediocre.
There is no doubt that the band are very professional – Rick Vito and Jonny Lang handle guitar and
vocals on many of the songs competently enough but for me they just didn’t have that Peter Green
magic – but I guess that is what we are celebrating here - that unique talent of a great singer,
guitarist and songwriter. Mick also introduces the songs and his enthusiasm for his project is
evident and I’m sure that if you were there you would have been swept up in the moment but I’m
not convinced that they’ve captured the excitement of that moment on record.

We start with ‘Rollin’ Man’ with Rick Vito on guitar and vocals and then it’s Jonny Lang with the

Otis Rush song ‘Homework’ nicely recreating Danny Kirwan’s vibrato. ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons takes
on ‘Doctor Brown’ which for me didn’t have the swing or excitement of Jeremy Spencer’s original
version and then it’s John Mayall for another Otis Rush song ‘All Your Love’ which he recorded with
Eric Clapton. Mr. Gibbons is back for ‘Rattlesnake Shake’ with Aerosmith’s Stephen Tyler on vocals
and harp and then Christine McVie steps up for two songs the sublime ‘Stop Messin’ Round’ and the
moody ‘Looking for Somebody’. Noel Gallagher seems an odd choice of guest but he makes a decent
fist of three songs singing and playing acoustic guitar on ‘The World Keep Turning’, ‘Like Crying’
and Howlin’ Wolf’s ‘No Place to Go’.

Pete Townsend contributes an original take on ‘Station Man’ from the Kiln House album and then

recent Fleetwood Mac inductee Neil Finn delivers a version of Peter’s melodic, tragic ‘Man of the
World’ with some very nice lead guitar. Gibbons and Tyler are back for a rocking ‘Oh Well Part 1’,
with David Gilmour taking on the instrumental ‘Part 2’ section of the song and he also does the
iconic instrumental ‘Albatross’ this time on lap steel. Mr. Gibbons and Kirk Hammett (the current
owner of Peter Green’s Les Paul guitar) deliver a great sounding ‘The Green Manalishi’. Jeremy
Spencer plays two of his Elmore James’ songs – the subdued ‘The Sky is Crying’ and ‘I Can’t Hold
Out’—both with The Stones’ Bill Wyman helping out on bass—before the whole company close the

event with a rousing version of Elmore’s ‘Shake Your Money Maker’ – always a highlight of any
early Fleetwood Mac gig.

Graham Harrison

Tomislav Goluban—Express Connection—Blue Heart Records
BHR006

Croatian harmonica player and vocalist Tomislav (who has, over
the last 20 years of studying and playing the blues gained the
affectionate moniker of ‘Little Pigeon') has once again returned

to the Ardent Studios in Memphis, to record this, his 12th album.
As with his last album ‘Memphis Light', Tomislav is on vocals and
harmonica, with the same splendid line-up of musicians who
include, Jeff Jensen; guitars, David Green; drums, Rick Steff;
keyboards, Bill Ruffino; bass and Mark Johnson; slide guitar, an
authentic Memphis Horns sound has been achieved courtesy of
Kirk Smothers on Saxophone with Mark Franklin on Trumpet. Southern California singer,