Frostbite

Artist: Albert Collins Label: Alligator Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 014551471929 EAN: 0014551471929 ASIN: B0000009XM Release Date: 1990-10-25

Frostbite

Tracks:

1. If You Love Me Like You Say
2. Blue Monday Hangover
3. I Got A Problem
4. The Highway Is Like a Woman
5. Brick
6. Don't Go Reaching Across My Plate
7. Give Me My Blues
8. Snowed In

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1. Ice Pickin'
2. Frozen Alive!
3. Cold Snap
4. Don't Lose Your Cool
5. Showdown!

Customer Reviews:

Fine follow-up to "Ice Pickin'".......2004-04-03

Featuring a handful of excellent musicians, "Frostbite" includes some of Collins' best songs, like the supremely funky "If You Love Me Like You Say" and the wonderful piano-driven "The Highway Is Like A Woman", and he is backed by a five-man horn section which plays soulful riffs and fills without ever overwhelming Collins himself.
The excellent drummer Casey Jones is perhaps mixed a little bit too far into the background on a couple of tracks, but the sound and the mixing is generally very good, and the interplay between drummer Jones and bassist Johnny Gayden is top-notch.

As you probably know, the late Albert Collins played with a capo high up on the neck of his Fender Telecaster, delivering his muscular solos with no overdrive and very little sustain, and the resulting clear, "brittle" notes gave him his nickname "the Iceman".
He plays a number of excellent solos here, particularly on "Give Me My Blues" and "Blue Monday Hangover", and his vocals are strong and confident.

Not all of these songs are strong enough to make "Frostbite" a five-star album, but most of what is here is very good or even great, making this a fine addition to anyone's Albert Collins-collection.

Brick (but not goldbricking).......2000-03-01

Get this one from Alligator records - it's definitely worth the cost of admission, folks. You'll not find a better Telecaster player than Albert Collins. (I'd heard that his volume knob on his amp went past 10, to 11, but I didn't believe it 'til I saw him live in California - I couldn't verify that it wasn't simply painted on, but it sure did sound like he was blowing that speaker past its limits to the coldest sound I'd ever heard.)

May your music live on through future generations of blues aficionados, Albert.

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