GREAT! highly reccomend this CD, get buying folk.
author: Dan
GREAT! highly reccomend this CD, get buying folk.
If you like your blues you won't be able to resist this cd.
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Tunefull, accomplished, refreshing - most impressed!
author: Graham Childs
What impressed me most on first hearing was the direct and
uncomplicated tunefullness of every track, and this feeling
just increases every time I listen - thoroughly recommended!
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excellent c d !!!
author: bob lynch
great strat work !!! i really enjoyed it !!!
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If you like your blues to rock Stratmaster is your man
author: PETER "BLEWZZMAN" LAURO
If you like your blues to rock a bit, but without it going so far over the edge that it becomes rock, then the STRATMASTER, PETE MITCHELL is your man and CUTTING THE MUSTARD belongs in your collection.
CUTTING THE MUSTARD, being a total solo effort, certainly had me fooled - and impressed as well. You see, I am not a musician and as knowledgeable as I am about the blues, I am truly a music and technological idiot. Truthfully, when a band says "let's do this next song in the key of G, I'm already lost. On the other hand, I'd like to think I know the difference between a good rhythm section and "canned drums". That's why, prior to starting this review, I wrote to PETE MITCHELL asking for the names of the bass player and the drummer. Since I like to mention all the players on discs I review, this was needed information. Much to my surprise, and with most of you already getting my drift, it turned out that PETE plays all the guitars including bass, and wrote all the drum programs which indeed, were synthesized. Amazing!
CUTTING THE MUSTARD consist of ten tracks which are all PETE MITCHELL originals. And, as you would expect from someone who believes in the theory that Most musicians play to survive, while I survive to play, they are all done with a high level of passion.
ROCK 'N' ROLL is a smoker that clearly shows a Chuck Berry influence. As is the case with most of the tracks, this one is all about the guitar.
BEE MY HONEY is one of those tracks that's arranged so well, it's one of the ones that found me wanting to compliment the non existing rhythm section.
Since PETE wrote an autobiography with the same title, there has to be more to OUTSIDE LOOKING IN than meets the ear. It's a song about eras in PETE'S early life which follow him through his musical career. As a young boy he makes references to Elvis, then Lennon, then Jimi. I'm sure the book, which I eventually will read, goes into a lot more detail.
PLAY MY GUITAR is unfortunately the one and only real low down blues track, thus making it this listeners personal favorite. Three or four more of these would have been right up my alley.
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