Homage to Elmore (1995)

Anderson takes on 17 tunes strongly associated with Elmore on this tribute album, and comes up short on almost all of them. Anderson is a better-than-average slide player (although his interpretation of Elmore's patented "Dust My Broom" lick falls short), but the backing band is just too generic to bring any real fire to these songs (the drummer is too busy and stiff to groove anything on here), the mix is just too squeaky clean to pass muster, and the sequencing of too many slow ones in a row certainly bogs things down. ... Read More

Anderson takes on 17 tunes strongly associated with Elmore on this tribute album, and comes up short on almost all of them. Anderson is a better-than-average slide player (although his interpretation of Elmore's patented "Dust My Broom" lick falls short), but the backing band is just too generic to bring any real fire to these songs (the drummer is too busy and stiff to groove anything on here), the mix is just too squeaky clean to pass muster, and the sequencing of too many slow ones in a row certainly bogs things down. Curiously, what John Brim's "Ice Cream Man" is doing on an Elmore tribute album is one of those programming blunders that must go unanswered, but overdubbing Anderson singing and playing over Elmore's original Fire recording of "Stranger Blues" is the final nail in the coffin on this misguided effort. Tribute albums are a dicey affair at best, true, but this one ranks as a very ineffectual one. ~ Cub Koda, Rovi Read Less

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1995, Rhino UPC: 081227219925 CD See All