Recall Records UK
2007
Reaching The Gold
About This Album
Great Britain's Recall label reaches toward Eagle Rock Entertainment for a pair of Peter Green Splinter Group records from earlier in the decade -- Time Traders from 2001 and Reaching the Cold 100 from 2003 -- and pops them out in this two-disc edition with jive liner notes that don't offer any real credits other than those due the songwriters. These are both very different albums than previous Splinter Group offerings. The bands are bigger, a bit rowdier, and Green's singing and playing are stronger than ever. That said, even with Nigel Watson, Peter Stroud, Roger Cotton (who wrote the new material here; Green's own writing contributions are recycled Fleetwood Mac jams), the first of these is very slick, and follows too closely in the current Chicago blues vernacular to be indisputably essential Green listening. There are moments on each of these records, however, of real interest. First there's Cotton's killer "Real World," on Time Traders; it's written in a minor key in the ghostly Green lineage with the writer's gorgeous B-3 flitting about in the background intertwining the guitar players; Green's spare snaky lead lines are here in abundance.
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