Rating: 3/5
Review:
Pleasant but uninspiring
I have been a fan of Jeremy Spencer's work for getting on
for 50 years now. He and Peter Green
created some classic tracks with Fleetwood Mac and Spencer is a very fine blues
guitarist. Sadly, I don't think Homebrewed
Blues really reflects that.
These are all instrumentals featuring varying blues styles
including the bottleneck with which he thrilled me all those years ago. It is, of course, very well played and
perfectly listenable, but there is no fire in it and it doesn't have any of
that edge which blues needs to really speak to me. It's a sort of Easy Listening Blues which is
pleasant and inoffensive, but doesn't really add up to much.
I'm sorry to be critical of a musician I have admired for
most of my life. There's nothing
actively wrong with the album but it's pretty forgettable, I'm afraid.
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