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Thomas D. (RockerBoomer) from SOUTHAMPTON, NY
Reviewed on 2/17/2011...

Huh? What happened to the Snowy White that I'm used to hearing! This CD does not live up to the five-star ratings usually given to Snowy White's music. It seems the words don't fit the music and vice-versa, which makes these tracks less than cohesive. If you take the songwriting and the music writing on their own it sounds OK but when you put them together it doesn't work for many of the tracks. Not sure what's going on here.

Drew V. from POWNAL, ME
Reviewed on 6/26/2007...

This is the BMG-made release. It has a different cover than shown.

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I simply love it because he is such an emotional guitarist

Matthew Culbreth | 10/25/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"snowy white is brilliant. There are not many guitarplayers nowadays who play their guitar with such an incridable feeling. He doesn't need to pretend that he is one of the fastest or one of the "new generation type" of guitarists. He simply plays hisself and that is actually more than enough."

Very good--but different than I was expecting

Matthew Culbreth | 03/16/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I was first introduced to Snowy White from a bootleg of the 1977 Pink Floyd In the Flesh tour, on which Snowy plays backup to David Gilmour. I then heard his music on Richard Wright's 1978 solo album Wet dream, and Roger Waters' 1987 (or 1988?) solo album Radio KAOS. I also saw Snowy playing lead on the last Roger Waters In the Flesh 1999 tour, and he certainly made a big impression there.I was, therefore, expecting Snowy to play like he had on these efforts. In other words, I was expecting David Gilmour.What I got was a bluesy, almost Dire Straits album with a few David Gilmour-type songs in there.Snowy's playing is nothing less than superb. I love how he switches between an ultra-clean blues style to a more distorted rock style to a more flanged Gilmour style all within the same song. His voice is unique and very nice. However, I think the lyrics and singing of the album does move it down from 5 stars to 4. Sometimes the singing just doesn't fit the song. Maybe he could have had Roger Waters right a few songs? :)All in all, a very nice album certainly worthy of a purchase. You even get David Gilmour contributing some mean guitar on the last song!"