Joe Satriani by Joe Satriani (CD, May-1997, Legacy Recordings)

"Joe Satriani" Instrumental. Check out this dude (vocals, guitar, dobro, slide guitar, lap steel, harmonica, bass); Andy Fairweather Low (guitar); Eric Valentine (piano, keyboards, bass, percussion). All songs written by Joe Satriani!
"(You're) My World" was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Joe Satriani's self-titled, seventh adventure bursts with a new level of genius and musicianship.

The first thing that hits you is a huge, warm guitar tone with an enormous groove, but the overall sound is different from the Satch we're used to. JOE SATRIANI is much more direct, more raw and more effective. It is as though he has been stripped of any superfluous trimmings and wayward effects so that the guitar playing within him can come out clearly.

This CD shows he's a gifted and consistent songwriter, sublimely talented guitarist, versatile improviser and a kickin' band--strengths that allow Satriani to express himself ever so eloguently, evoking emotions on a universal level.

The opener, "Cool #9," is a funky, polyrhythmic scorcher on which Satriani grows a stratospheric guitar solo out of a few well-placed succinct phrases. That's just the first of the burning rock to be found on JOE SATRIANI, most of it propelled by the tremendous drumming of Manu Katche. Satriani also pours much of his ferocious red energy into the blues. There are four genuine blues offerings here, showcasing Joe on slide guitar, Joe on harp, Joe on dobro and Joe on vocals. Occasionally adding the touch of rhythm guitar master Andy Fairweather Low, Satriani plays the blues with spine-warming emotion, milking buckets of feeling out of his strings to feed sweet melodies.

It's cheap on Ebay... WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?? (-:

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