Time: 59:26
File: Flac
Released: 2000
Styles: Contemporary Blues
Art: Front
1. Little Miss Trouble (3:13)
2. Precious Love (3:58)
3. Fool For You (5:01)
4. Snowblind Blues (4:48)
5. Riviera Blues (3:58)
6. Days Gone By (5:50)
7. Missing You (3:46)
8. In The Past (1:16)
9. Pearly (3:57)
10. Blues In The Morning (5:23)
11. You're Evil (4:23)
12. Red House (Live)* (5:26)
13. Precious Love (Alternative Take) (4:12)
14. Blues For Stevie (4:09)
Randall Craig Yetter hails from Lewistown, Pennsylvania and, at first blush, it's easy to brush him off as nothing more than a SRV tribute act. He plays in a power trio, wears a big brim black hat, baggy pleated pants, southwestern, Hawaiian or Japanese patterned shirts open to the third button, southwestern style belt, wears a soul patch under his lip and even slings a reissued tattered 1957 Stratocaster with a SRV style strap. Also, the inside cover of his CD is intentionally photographed to resemble the famous SRV photo used on the "In Step" CD sans the serape. As such, comparisons to SRV are not coincidental and limited to the tones emitted from Yetter's guitar. Rather, Yetter seems hell bent on drawing this sort of comparison to himself. On a somewhat humorous note, Yetter claims to have been influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Peter Green, no mention of SRV. Could it be he doesn't mention SRV's influence because he believes that he is the great one? How else can you explain that he doesn't wear velour or fringe leather jackets ala Hendrix, jeans and work boots like Clapton or even a hat like Green and, with the exception of "Red House", plays nothing that remotely sounds anything like these guys?
In any event, if you can get past this clone like image you will find that the music is really quite good and, while admittedly SRV like, is mostly original, again with the exception of Hendrix' "Red House". Yetter's guitar work is quite accomplished and he flat out smokes the fret board on most every tune. Likewise, while no Double Trouble, Michael Sowers-bass and Jeremy Hummel-Drums, certainly deserve kudos for maintain a strong backbeat throughout. Best track on the disc, what else, "Blues For Stevie".
Guitar Trouble FLAC
