Hugh Burns - Mindwash

Hugh Burns - Mindwash - 1998

Hugh Burns is a guitarist and a composer with an international reputation for excellence. He has played on many pop and rock recordings including George Michael's Faith and Careless Whisper, Paul McCartney's and Michael Jackson's Pipes of Peace and Scott Walker's Drift. As a studio guitarist, he has also played on many film soundtracks including The Full Monty, Die Another Day, Don Quixote, Tristen and Isolda and An Unfinished Life. He has written music for television documentaries and films and published two guitar instruction books.

Hugh Burns is an artist noted for his exceptional ability as both a composer and guitarist. He has gained an international reputation for excellence, having played in over thirty countries working with artists including: Astrid Gilberto, Oliver Nelson, Elvin Jones, Henry Mancini and on George Michael's Songs from the Last Century. Soundtrack credits include: Twelve Monkeys, Moulin Rouge, Stealing Beauty and the Grammy award-winning Full Monty amongst many others.

Mindwash (review by Andrew Brel)

After completing the first album with Hugh, 'Dedication' in 1996, I remained totally impressed by Hugh's extraordinary skill with the nylon strung guitar. (As widely heard on the George Michael 'careless whisper' song)

The idea for this album was to produce a recording based on ideas improvised on the acoustic guitar. A Mindwash between the courses of other musical styles, and what I consider a valuable alternative to the manufactured dross that forms the chart best sellers.

Over a one year period Hugh and I would meet over a cappuccino at the Cafe Rouge in Esher, where we would brainstorm an idea before driving down to the studio in Ripley. Once there - with a variety of Hugh's excellent guitars, and with a selection of top quality microphones, we would record hours of improvised parts.

Out of the nine or so hours of material recorded, I edited the best hour in a working context, and this became the album.

The engineer for most of the sessions was Robin Black. The designer was Stuart Catterson.

Highlights of this period for me are hard to specify as working with Hugh is always a pleasure, and being around the sound of such beautiful instruments is never a bad thing. There was a special thrill in hearing Hugh interpret a guitar piece I had written, which appears on the album as 'Hearts'.

01. Into the Light
02. Dedication
03. Wedding Song
04. Another Country Road
05. Our Secrets
06. Highlands
07. Cafe Montmartre
08. Renaissance
09. Blue Espanole
10. Palms
11. Hearts

12. Questions of the Night
13. Winter
14. Reverie
15. Andante
16. Sound of the Sea
17. When Night Turns Into Day
18. Reflections
19. Masks and Shadows
20. Closing Time

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The Robbie McIntosh Band – Emotional Bends

The Robbie McIntosh Band – Emotional Bends - 1999

By MacKenzie Wilson, AMG

Guitarist Robbie McIntosh has fine-tuned himself as a desired sessions musician, and his long tenure playing alongside Paul McCartney (Flowers in the Dirt and Off the Ground; Tripping the Live Fantastic, Unplugged and Paul is Live)  and the Pretenders has established such notoriety. He has also rendered music with Dutch sax phenomenon Candy Dulfer, Joe Cocker, Phil Collins, Annie Lennox, and Carl Perkins, and McIntosh's expansive career hails back to the early '80s. He is classically trained, an acoustic perfectionist, and, aside from his collaborative work, Robbie McIntosh has maintained a low-profile, yet distinguished solo career. The Robbie McIntosh Band released Emotional Bends in early 2000, and followed up with Unsung later that fall. Wide Screen appeared in spring 2001.

01. Scarecrow
02. Joe And Me
03. Hang Me On The Line
04. Emotional Bends

05. Roll Away
06. Cactus Juice
07. Homesteeders
08. Oh Judy
09. Good Punchline
10. Simple Thing
11. Cheque Book And Pen
12. Giant
13. Dodi   

Robbie McIntosh - Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar, Lead Vocals
Robbie McIntosh - Bass (1, 4, 8),  Harmonica (9), Mandolin (8)
Pino Palladino - Bass
Paul Beavis - Drums, Percussion
John Phelps - Percusion (8)
Melvin Duffy - Steel Guitar
Stephen Smith - Electric Piano (1, 4), Organ, Backing, Vocals (10), Keyboards (7)
Mark Feltham - Harmonica
Linda Phelps (8, 10), Lucy Watkins (2, 5), Rick Hammond (2, 5) - Backing Vocals
Stephen Darrell Smith - Piano (5, 9)
Wix - Piano (10), Accordion (8)

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Rusty Anderson - Until We Meet Again

Rusty Anderson - Until We Meet Again - 2012 -

 

by Liam Wilkinson from  Northern Sky Music Magazine

Along with his knack for producing some of the most ground-breaking, timeless music of the last half century, one of Paul McCartney's greatest strengths is his aptitude for surrounding himself with good musicians.  Apart from the obvious trio of fellow Beatles and those who comprised the three line-ups of Wings, not to mention such notable artists as Elvis Costello, Stevie Wonder, Tony Bennett and Michael Jackson, Paul has managed to write, record and perform his way through the last five decades with a bunch of top-notch side-men.

Rusty Anderson has been standing with his guitar to the left of Paul since 2001 when he was asked to play on DRIVING RAIN – an often overlooked McCartney album, but one that laid the foundation for the last very successful ten years of Paul's career.  Rusty, along with drummer Abe Laboriel Jr, guitarist Brian Ray and long-time McCartney keyboardist Paul 'Wix' Wickens, has been touring with McCartney ever since and, as recently as December 2011, could be seen providing the lead guitar to some of Paul's best-loved songs live on stage.

Despite the busy schedule imposed by his ex-Beatle boss, Rusty has managed to produce a steady stream of highly melodic, lyrically-strong rock songs; the recordings of which sitting equally as comfortable in the ears as some of Macca's recent gems.  And, thanks to the nice folks at Hypertension, 2012 sees the release of a twelve-track compilation of Rusty's best songs from his two solo albums, Undessing Under Water (2003) and Born on Earth (2009).

Until We Meet Again opens with the brilliant, radio-friendly Hurt Myself – featuring Sir Paul on bass. A pleaser for fans of the title-track of Paul's Driving Rain, Hurt Myself possesses all the hallmarks of the finely-crafted, guitar-driven pop songs of such artists as R.E.M. and Ryan Adams.  As uplifting as Penny Lane (the famous piccolo trumpet replaced, here, with a flugel horn), Hurt Myself is a fitting, upbeat opener for a collection that never seems to wane.

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01. Hurt Myself

02. Born On Earth
03. Baggage Claim
04. Where Would We Go?
05. Julia Roberts
06. Electric Trains
07. These Are The Days
08. Devil's Spaceship
09. Catbox Beach
10. Coming Down To Earth
11. Damaged Goods
12. Until We Meet Again 


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Henry McCullough - Cut

Henry McCullough - Cut - 1987

Henry McCullough was one of the busier guitarists in England during the 1970s, and has played alongside such stars and superstars as Joe Cocker and Paul McCartney. Born in Portstewart, Northern Ireland in 1943, he took up the guitar as a boy and was playing in the Irish show band the Skyrockets in the mid-'60s. After a few years of playing dancehalls, he decided to move his career to the next phase -- he'd met three other players, Ernie Graham (guitar/vocals), Chris Stewart (bass), and Dave Lutton (drums), from a show band called Gene & the Gents, and together they formed the People, later renamed Eire Apparent. Their sound was a mix of blues, pop, and psychedelia, with a commercial and virtuoso edge to the playing and singing. They jumped into the big time after a move to London and being signed by Chas Chandler and Mike Jeffery, the managers of Jimi Hendrix -- from obscurity, they were suddenly thrust into Hendrix's orbit, touring England and then America in support of the legendary guitarist.

01. Gone With Another
02. Same Damn Thing    
03. All Shook Up
04. John Henry
05. Shining Star
06. Am I To Be The One
07. If I Could Write A Book
08. Rock Me Woman
09. Mandolin Song
10. I Wouldn't Treat A Dog The Way
11. Dead Flowers
12. Can't Help Falling In Love (With You)
13. The Flea    
14. It Don't Really Matter
15. Can't Help Falling In Love (With You)

NB: Nesse mês de fevereiro, quando o blog completará tenros 2 anos, somente haverão posts de guitarristas que tenham tocado com Paul McCartney. E por quê? Por nada, pois uma coisa nada tem relacionada a outra. :)

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