In The Skies

英国最高のブルース・ロック・ギタリストとして初期フリートウッド・マックを牽引していたピーター・グリーン。彼のソロ2作目となる作品がリイシュー。
THEMや黄金期キャメルで活躍したピーター・バーデンス、ピンク・フロイドのサポートやシン・リジーで活躍したスノーウィー・ホワイト等が参加。ドラッグに溺れる日々から脱却し、約10年ぶりのリリースとなった復帰作です。

After almost a decade of personal, drug-addled hell since his 1970 debut The End of the Game, Peter Green begins his comeback with In the Skies, and a title tune that sounds downright hopeful compared to where he left off. Although Green shares lead guitar work with Snowy White, it's clear from his fluid technique and haunting tone that he can still play. "A Fool No More" is the kind of slow blues Green excels at. Robin Trower drummer Reg Isidore gives way on one track to Godfrey McLean, who played on The End of the Game. Green dips even farther back into his past, courtesy of keyboards by Pete Bardens, who gave him his first professional music job in 1966 in a band with Mick Fleetwood. Green's singing, never a particular strength, is not a weakness here. Five of the nine songs are instrumentals, continuing a longtime Green tradition. It's an unambitious but solid and welcome return by a guitarist who in his prime rivaled Eric Clapton. If that seems far-fetched, listen to A Hard Road by John Mayall's Bluebreakers or Then Play On by Fleetwood Mac. ~ Mark Allan