Latest album purchase has left ears tired but it's growing on me.

Gru

Quite disappointed at this moment in time and cant see this being a long term listener (short might be pushing it) Waste of £9!

Album in Question is 'Gary Clark Jr - Live'

Now firstly, this wasn't the album I was originally going to buy. That would be 'Black and Blu' but I was reading reviews and some sounded really disappointed.

So I started reading about the live album, more stars and better reviews 'this is what black and Blu should have been'

Stupidly I purchased without really listening.

Now don't get me wrong, I like a lot of the songs and the guitar playing, that is until in pretty much every song there is what I can only describe as a musical interlude of 'noise' which heads of on a tangent for about a minute at a time (felt like a lifetime by the 5th/6th song), and in my opinion has ruined every one so far.

Maybe Black and Blu would have been a better every day listener after all? I will be checking it out, but I will do some serious listening to it first.

stickyfiddle

I know exactly what you mean re the "noise" but Blak and Blu is over-produced and trying too hard to hit the modern soul/R&B angle as well. The noisy jammy bits work really live when everything's clicking and you can see the band firing off each other, but on CD it doesn't quite fit.

not_the_dj

I like it, but then bluesy jamming is really my thing. I much prefer the live album to the studio one.

d8m

I'm a bit late to the Gary Clark Jr game but honestly I prefer the live album to the studio mix.

Its one of those great albums to put on and let play through.

Gru

Maybe it was all just a little unexpected.

Being honest, I didn't even know who he was. It was his Epiphone Casino Signature that got me interested.

I will give it another chance tomorrow, but maybe it's just not for me, it certainly wasn't what I imagined after watching a couple of YouTube videos.

not_the_dj

This is the clip that really got me into him (and seeing a short set at Hyde Park Calling the other year).

Octahedron

Maybe I need to give the live album a go but I really like the studio album already... So I dunno what it's gonna do for me!

Gru

I wanted to bring this back up.

Rather than letting it sit on my iPhone doing nothing, after a day off, i have made myself listen to it a lot more and it is growing on me.

I certainly have some favourites so far in 'Things are changing' and 'I don't owe you a thing' although opposite ends of the spectrum.

I think I was initially shocked that it just wasn't what I expected. Still got a way to go before I am on board with the whole thing, but the journey has started.

Some of the sounds he gets from his guitars are immense!