I first became aware of Lucky on You Tube - the site of choice for the modern music afficionado!  From there, I had to track down the CD.  This is great - probably not quite 5 stars, but a very good effort.  The songs are excellent and the playing (all instruments) is top notch.  If I had to nitpick, I would suggest that the CD could have benefited from tighter production, but I imagine Mutt Lange was probably busy at the time.  Seriously, this is well worth a listen. if you like guitar-based instrumentals - for me Memory Man and Razorback are the standout tracks and both are brilliant (check them out on You Tube, as well as his cover of "Curse of Castle Dragon" - very, very good), but the standard is high throughout.  In a world full of great players who can transcribe and play anything on guitar (sadly, I am not that talented), Lucky might just be a musician that displays signs that he has that little something extra.    Well worth keeping an ear out for future work.
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