might be his best - This album is a fine example of fifties style rock-n-roll/swing as only Mr. Lee can play it--with plenty of bite. If you liked TYA when they ventured into this territory (Speed Kills and Hear Me Callin just to name two) then you will absolutely love this. There s not a bad track on it. Any other band playing this kind of stuff might sound just a little bit forced but this is Alvin s turf. I love the double bass and big sounding rockabilly drums. The only recommendation I ve read and tend to agree with is that there could be some covers but I suspect Alvin Lee forked out enough cash for the fantastic line-up and didn t want to pay song royalties as well. Goin Home is, as Alvin Lee puts it, the way it should be played and it will knock you out. Great stuff.
alvin lee/tennessee - was not expecting this to be so completely polished. what a great tribute from an outstanding rock guitarist to the old sun label/rca victor rock sound from the 50 s.
I AM IMPRESSED! - What could be better, Alvin Lee slowed down to a musically understandablepace, and The King s side men sped up to a musically enjoyable pace, whowould of thunk it! I look at this CD-In Tennessee, with my ears, andfind no fault. Talk about one of those 70 s super groups, this unasunming but unbelivealbly good CD puts them to shame, not a note outof place, every muscian knew where they were going, and the flow of thealbum was as mighty as the mississippi right up to the end. What an endto the CD, I m Going Home, oh fellow babies, you could compare it tothe Ten Years After version, and be hard pressed to choose between themfor the best one. This is a must buy CD if you like well produced Rock/Country fusion with musicians that have a feel for the music, andarn t affraid to play it.
Olde time Rock and Roll - What can I say Alvin Lee does it again.If you like Olde Time Rock and Roll,I mean the hand clappin,foot stompin,early 50 s and 60 s type of rock and roll then this is your album.It s a great mix of rock and blues that shows Alvin s true musical roots.Truely one of the most under rated guitar players of our time,Alvin takes us back to the days of drive-in movies and car-hops.A great album.
His best solo album yet. - Alvin Lee have long been one of the finest gunslingers alive in Rock and Roll. His studio albums showed rock and rolls what it should be as he and his band mates blazed thru one song after another. He have for the major of his career, with the exception of the album Space and Time, avoided the limelight. His orginal two live albums (Undead and Recorded Live) with TYA are classic. And then there was his woodstock performance. His solo career, with the exception of his first solo album, On the Road to Freedom, however have been a disappoinmemt. Not that the albums have been bad, but sometime it hard to live up to your own history. The Stones are the perfect example, once you did Exile on Main Street and everything that lead up to it, everything afterward never lived up to what you did in the 60 and early 70s. The problem is that you always end up comparing it to what came before. The same hold true with Alvin LeeWith In Tennesse, he departed the British Blues that he have used and master thru out his career and tried something different. As a result, this album made you for length of time forget that he was TYA. It was fresh, different and soulful. A musically style that have been dormat for decades. It was like listening to Elvis, Roy and others from the early 50s Memphis for the first time. It is a shame that this album will be lost in the annual of Rock and Roll. It is a fine piece of recording that stands outside of one of the true unsung guitars players.The only thing that could of made this album better was to leave off track 12.