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Gary Moore - How Blue Can You Get (Album Review) Tuesday, 04 May 2021 Written by Simon Ramsay
Famous for scaring the living daylights out of some of the planet’s finest guitarists during his all-too-brief 58 years on earth, the late Gary Moore was quite simply one of the finest to ever make a Les Paul sing, scream and sob. Ten years since his passing, the Northern Irishman’s vault has finally been opened to produce a ‘new’ release that, although containing some fine moments, suggests the depth of unheard material in his archives isn’t exactly bountiful.
As well as being a ferociously talented axe man, Moore was a gifted songwriter who was never restricted by genre. From the jazzy prog-rock of Colosseum II to his time in Thin Lizzy, and a solo career that moved from heavy metal, via a little Celtic rock, to settle in blues, his playing was always fiercely passionate, tonally gorgeous, masterfully articulated and technically flawless.