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Acoustic Alchemy - Sounds of St. Lucia Audio CD

A fair review of the Acoustic Alchemy "Sounds of St. Lucia" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Acoustic Alchemy reviews here, or go back to the Acoustic Alchemy tabs.

Acoustic Alchemy Band: Acoustic Alchemy
Title: Sounds of St. Lucia
Rating:
Release Date: 2003-03-11
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Trail Blazer 2: Playing for Time 3: Angel of the South 4: Beautiful Game 5: Viva Ch� 6: Cool as a Rule 7: Red Dust & Spanish Lace 8: Flamoco Loco 9: Wind of Change 10: Augustrasse 18 11: Panama Cat 12: Lazeez

Oustanding
Even though these are songs on their other albums, it is a live recording so you get a different rendition of your favorites like Lazeez. This is one of my favorite CDs. Awesome - I listen to it all the time.


I Saw Them Live
It was a fantastic performance. I saw Acoustic Alchemy live at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan last night. Miles Gilderdale is an incredibly talented guitar player. Founding member Greg Carmichael, drummer Greg Grainger, and guest keyboard player Terry Disley along with Miles performed cleanly and with passion. If this live CD is anything like the show I saw last night, it is very good. .


" REALLY SKILLED PLAYING"
However, I love this disc. I haven't been the biggest AA fan because I am partial to electric guitar. Not surprising is my
favorite pick- "Panama Cat". This track features great bass, followed by great acoustic playing; and then INCREDIBLE electric
guitar by Miles Gilderdale who plays this extended wah-wah lead
solo. THe band is superb. Buy It.


Superb "live" playing - period!!
Nicely produced live album too. I couldn't believe a couple of the extremely negative reviews here! Unfair! This is THE AA album I return to over and over again. I have the DVD as well and I think folks who haven't seen them might want this to their collection. Perhaps get the DVD version and make your own audio CD from it. (Two songs from the DVD that are not on the cd are "Catalina Kiss" and "Casino". ) Interesting that the audio disc switches the playing order of the DVD, but musically it works out.
Those who still can't get over with Miles replacing Nick Webb might want to realize that Miles played in AA - mostly electric guitars - on several of their earlier albums! He fits in just nicely up front now on acoustic steel, thank you very much. Both are extremely gifted musicians who can write and perform quality pop-jazz material. And the rest of the band are no slouchers either.
You won't be disappointed with this "live" effort. 10 stars!
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NOT Acoustic Alchemy
At best it is HALF of AA. One thing that all previous reviewers have failed to hit on, or remember, notice or know is this album is NOT Acoustic Alchemy playing. Sadly the other half died of cancer several years ago and by the way, they never were a "Band" as I would ever use the word. Two Extremely tallented guys with guitars that made awesome music which can now only be imitated by another player. . . . . . and an ELECTRIC GUITAR ??? I love the Instrument, but for . . . "ACOUSTIC" Alchemy ??, the duo who got their start playing to passengers on the Concord ??? An ELECTRIC Guitar ??? What is Next ?? Bongos ?? Thank God I have all of their original works on CD already. If you want to listen, fine, but don't compare the two, Apples & . . . Well Electric Oranges.


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