- Audio Cassette (5 Feb 1991)
- Format: Import
- Label: Mca
- ASIN: B00000EN8M
- Other Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Track Listings
| 1. Cut to the Chase |
| 2. Simple Simon |
| 3. Vista Grande |
| 4. Sleaze Factor |
| 5. Battle Lines |
| 6. Southern Steel |
| 7. Wolf Song |
| 8. Weekend Overdrive |
| 9. Arena Rock |
| 10. Point/Counterpoint |
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Audio CD
The more I find out about Steve Morse, the more I like him. I`d bought this on cassette when I was at school in 1991. I didn`t get it, and forgot about Steve Morse for twenty years. Thankfully, my brain has improved in that time, and I realise now that this is an absolutely majestic piece of work - truly, as good as I`ve heard from Steve Morse - which stands up there with any other guitar instrumental work I can think of.
As always, it`s very much the Steve Morse Band, so his bassist and drummer star too (Dave LaRue and Van Romaine), and on album opener "Cut to the Chase" the interplay between lead guitar and bass is on a par with anything Sheehan and Vai did on this. There are mellow moments like "Vista Grande", "Wolf Song" and baroque closer "Point/Counterpoint" but broadly this is a rock/hard rock album, and songs such as "Arena Rock", "Simple Simon" are just that. But the greatest song on this record is, IMO, the title track. It has about five riffs and moments which would be justifiably worthy of a great song on their own, but they are all condensed with a real groove and feel that makes me smile in awe at the greatness of Mr Morse. Worth buying for this song alone, but there are nine other high class tracks too...so that makes it pretty much an essential purchase.
As always, it`s very much the Steve Morse Band, so his bassist and drummer star too (Dave LaRue and Van Romaine), and on album opener "Cut to the Chase" the interplay between lead guitar and bass is on a par with anything Sheehan and Vai did on this. There are mellow moments like "Vista Grande", "Wolf Song" and baroque closer "Point/Counterpoint" but broadly this is a rock/hard rock album, and songs such as "Arena Rock", "Simple Simon" are just that. But the greatest song on this record is, IMO, the title track. It has about five riffs and moments which would be justifiably worthy of a great song on their own, but they are all condensed with a real groove and feel that makes me smile in awe at the greatness of Mr Morse. Worth buying for this song alone, but there are nine other high class tracks too...so that makes it pretty much an essential purchase.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Solid mature Morse, sublime moments, consistent craftmanship
13 Jun 1998
Format:Audio CD
Morse is a giant in guitar performance and instrumental composition, and a long-time Gallery of the Greats resident in Guitar Player Magazine's readership rankings. This album is securely in his recent tradition, tending more to the electric side of things with tunes like "Arena Rock", "Weekend Overdrive", "Cut to the Chase", Sleaze Factor" and the title tune, "Southern Steel". "Simple Simon" and "Arena Rock" have deep-diving hooks that settle into memory, and the title tune can still pull a tear out of me. Morse is a master of "leave 'em wanting more", by building a tune with progressive harmonies and counterpoint into a symphonic crescendo and just as it's at the transcendent blend, fading the song out. My test for an album is how many times I can play it in obsessive succession, over and over, before I'm sick of it. I'm still spinning this one.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
best batch of songs overall
2 April 2005
Format:Audio CD
I've owned several Morse CDs in the past, and, although they're all good, there's usually only a couple of standouts per disk. Southern Steel has the most standouts of the CDs I've listened to.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Morse at his finest
8 Aug 2011
Format:Audio CD
Out of all the musical endeavors he participated in, the Steve Morse Band is perhaps the most significant and personal one. This instrumental trio is well known for re-inventing rock in all possible ways, mixing it with jazz, country, funk and even bluegrass. "Southern Steel" from 1991 is to this day considered one of the finest albums the band has ever released.
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