Young Neal & The Vipers - 2 albums: Thirteen / One's Enough

Album: Thirteen
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:03
Size: 114.6 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 1996
Art: Front

[4:02] 1. I Can't Keep Up With You
[3:58] 2. Ruby Lee
[4:32] 3. Give Your Love (Back To Your Husband)
[3:12] 4. Had Enuff
[3:07] 5. Radiates That Charm
[3:02] 6. Retro Man
[2:57] 7. Drives Me Wild
[3:30] 8. It Be's That Way
[4:22] 9. Treat Me Like A Dog
[4:01] 10. All That And A Cadillac Too
[3:30] 11. Heebie Jeebies
[3:24] 12. Can't Touch Things
[6:17] 13. I Won't Tell You No Lies

Around New England, folks know that the place to find some hot, blues-drenched guitar is wherever Young Neal & the Vipers happen to be playing. And Neal Vitullo (it's the music that keeps him 'young') obliges with a grueling schedule that puts him in front of appreciative audiences, practically seven nights a week.

While there's no substitute for Neal's live shows, his CDs let you hear what the excitement is all about. There are nods to some of Neal's influences - Howlin' Wolf, Muddy, Roy Buchanan - but always with enough individual heart and soul that everything still comes out sounding like Neal. ~Andy Smith

Thirteen mc
Thirteen zippy

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Album: One's Enough
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:49
Size: 127.8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 1998
Art: Front

[4:21] 1. Your Lying Ways
[4:10] 2. Why Did The Bottle Choose Me
[4:35] 3. Until You Were Gone
[3:58] 4. One's Enough
[5:36] 5. Fallen Flower
[4:13] 6. Linda Lu
[5:04] 7. Tell Me What's The Reason
[5:09] 8. The Hunt
[3:31] 9. Better Safe Than Sorry
[6:43] 10. Tramp
[4:43] 11. Guitar Slinger
[3:42] 12. The Hump

From the blistering flurry of notes from the album's opener "Your Lying Ways," you know you're definitely in Stevie Ray Vaughan-abee territory. There isn't a tone in Young Neal Vitullo's arsenal of Strat sounds that isn't 100% SRV-approved, while the Vipers provide Double Trouble-like rhythm section support. It's like you almost know what's coming before it arrives musically. That said, Vitullo contributes eight of the 12 selections on board here, the majority of them firmly in the blues-rock mold, the rest loose frameworks for the hot guitar solos that seem to be their musical high points. Vitullo's deadpan vocals can get a little annoying after three or four tunes, but at least he doesn't resort to a heap of phony rasping to get his point across. And make no mistake about it, Young Neal can really play; fans of this style of blues-rock will find much here to enjoy, especially on tracks like "The Hunt," "Tell Me What's The Reason" and the wacky and crunching "Guitar Slinger." ~Cub Koda

One's Enough mc
One's Enough zippy

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