- Purchase a product from the Music Store sold by Amazon.co.uk and receive £1 to use on an album download in our MP3 Store. Here's how (terms and conditions apply)
Amazon.co.uk allows you to pay for your items in your local currency. Restrictions apply. Learn More. |
Special Offers and Product Promotions
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s
Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or
view the MP3 Album.
|
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Electric Chamber Music Supreme,
By Number Six (Devon, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Night of the Living Dregs (Audio CD)
This is the third album by Steve Morse's legendary instrumental Georgia 5 piece, and maintains the great standard set by their previous offerings. The Dixie Dregs defied easy pigeon-holing, often being considered too mellow for all out rock and too muscular for jazz, Morse himself prefering to call their unique blend of influences 'electric chamber music', and this album, part studio recording and part live performance, amply demonstrates just why they were so resistant to simple categorising, and just how damn good they were!.
The music is obviously built around Morse's formidable guitar playing and writing skills, but whether rocking along to the opener, Punk Sandwich, flexing their syncopated muscles on Country House Shuffle, or blissing out to the mellow, jazz tinged Long Slow Distance, the rest of the guys are clearly having a wonderful time too! The deft interplay within the band, the evident pleasure in their playing, along with the touches of humour and playfulness, exemplified on the 4 live tracks (especially The Bash) were vital components of the Dregs' magic. Rock'n'roll, bluegrass/country, jazz and classical elements all contributed the the musical whole that was The Dixie Dregs. So ignore the old muso tag so often pinned on these fellas, anyone who has an appreciation of great tunes that strike above and below the waist should give this album a try. Go on, take a chance, you don't know what you're missing!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Unmissable!,
By
This review is from: Night of the Living Dregs (Audio CD)
My fellow Amazon correspondent is quite right - if you haven't heard the Dregs you really don't know what you are missing. They are simply incomparable.
I just wish they would put on a concert I could get to. Don't miss the album What If. I should perhaps add there is no style as such - the Dregs do everything, and do it well.
4.0 out of 5 stars
havent heard the like for years,
By Captain Kirk "greader" (swansea) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Night of the Living Dregs (Audio CD)
This is by the way of a preliminary review as I have yet to concentrate on all the tracks.And some tracks do require it - as can be said of many albums of this era, they repay attentive listening and do not always have an easy initial appeal.Firstly, the name of the band would lead you to expect a punk-country hybrid. This couldnt be further away from that. This is sophisticated stuff. To say it is progressive rock is to not accurately convey trhe breadth of their styles. And dont let that prog-rock term put you off - I am not using it in its usual derogatory sense and neither am I a huge prog-rock fan (Curved Airs first album is one of the few of that genre that I possess) Each track is different. The unifying characteristics are the technical abilities of the band, their sheer competence and, on the downside, perhaps a little coldness, a hauteur, in the delivery. By that I mean that the playing at times feels detached - now we play an archetypal generic rock song, now we do the jazz-rock fusion, now the country-rock , , , To my mind there jazzier numbers echo the early 70s UK band East of Eden. But there are so many different influences here they do defy easy categorisation.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
|
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Listmania!
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
