Skye Blues and a bottle of wine
Dec 13, 2009 Stev Skye Songs
Listening to “Skye Blues” (check it out at Stev’s ReverbNation page) is like tasting a very fine wine. You ease into it, you savor it and you let it splash around on your palette. You instantly feel the quality that went into it and that makes you appreciate it on a deeper level.
The taste just paints this perfect picture that bridges the gap between your taste buds and your imagination and it makes you feel at one with the wine universe. You take another taste – and another – and before you know it, there went the whole bottle.
It’s just that good.
In “Skye Blues,” Stev creates a sonic swirl with his guitar that establishes a sense of familiarity and comfort around the piece. It invites you in and you feel like you you’ve heard this before, but then you realize it’s better than what you think you know. It’s familiar in the sense that it’s a blues jam. It’s comfortable because the tone of his guitar is so clean.
As the jam evolves, it takes on more soul, more blues and more complexity. It’s so complex that it seems simple. The song taps those groove nerves that are usually tapped only by the great ones. You sense a fine hybrid of influences with a touch of Jimi Hendrix, a dash of Stevie Ray Vaughan, and perhaps a little David Gilmour and others. It’s all that and none of that. It peaks with a full bodied jam – the drums, the bass – everything where it should be.
At the end, you want more of it.
Put it up there in your collection with the other great blues jams.
Tags: David Gilmour, Jimi Hendrix, Skye Blues, stev skye, Stevie Ray Vaughan