Albert Collins & The Icebreakers - Gonna Whip Up A Twister

Released: 2021
Size: 164.4 MB
Time: 71:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Intro [0:35]
2. Instrumental, Pt.1 [7:46]
3. Iceman [3:11]
4. Lights Are On But Nobody's Home [8:20]
5. Put The Shoe On The Other Foot [6:42]
6. Black Cat Bone [6:24]
7. Instrumental, Pt.2 [2:26]
8. Same Old Thing [7:39]
9. Mr. Collins [5:38]
10. Things I Used To Do [6:02]
11. Do You Feel It? [4:26]
12. Reconsider Baby [3:50]
13. Instrumental, Pt.3 [3:09]
14. Interview With Albert [5:27]

Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, Collins toured the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan. He was becoming a popular blues musician and was an influence for Coco Montoya, Robert Cray, Gary Moore, Debbie Davies, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jonny Lang, Susan Tedeschi, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, John Mayer and Frank Zappa. In 1983, when he won the W. C. Handy Award for his album Don’t Lose Your Cool, which won the award for best blues album of the year. In 1985, he shared a Grammy for the album Showdown!, which he recorded with Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland. The following year his solo release Cold Snap was also nominated for a Grammy. In 1987, John Zorn enlisted him to play lead guitar in a suite he had composed especially for him, entitled “Two-Lane Highway,” on Zorn’s album Spillane. Alongside George Thorogood and the Destroyers and Bo Diddley, Collins performed at Live Aid in 1985, playing “Who Do You Love?”, “The Sky Is Crying” and “Madison Blues”, at Philadelphia’s JFK Stadium. He was the only black blues artist to appear.

Gonna Whip Up A Twister

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