Albert Collins - Cold Snap

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Media Type: CD
Artist: COLLINS,ALBERT
Title: COLD SNAP
Street Release Date: 07/07/1987
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Genre: BLUES Product Description

This may be the best Albert Collins studio album ever

Albert Collins was one of the true blues guitar greats. Critics and fans alike called him "The Master of the Telecaster."
Collins' "Cold Snap" album features brilliant songwriting, heartfelt vocals, trash-talking hilarity, and tight musicianship from his backup band.
If I could pick only one album that would feature elements of Texas blues, the Chicago style, and Delta blues, this would be the album I'd choose. It's well worth the money.
November 4, 2007

Not His Best

Like putting a wild animal in a cage, putting Albert Collins in a studio suppresses his natural exquisiteness. Mr. Collins was a hard driving, soul piercing blues guitarist who excelled in front of live audiences. He's not Ashlee Simpson. In this studio album his awesome power is watered down somewhat.

It's still a good CD. If you like it, then get one of his live albums, but make sure you have something to hold on to because it may very well blow you away.
February 2, 2005

If you love the guitar like you say

Then you need this as well as many more Albert Collins CD's. Master of the Telecaster he certainly was. I challenge anyone to replicate the riffs and tone of this journeyman bluesman. While you may not get it exactly right, one can imitate Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy and Clapton; just try to imitate Albert Collins, and you will be humbled.

If you are not familiar with this great "guitarists' guitarist," theyn you need to be. A great studio album as an into to his live work. A tragic loss too soon, that all Blues lovers must feel. November 25, 2002

Albert Collins With A Twist!

Albert Collins' best studio recordings are probably "Frostbite", which has ample doses of the telecaster tone Collins has become famous for, and "Frozen Alive", which features Collins supported by a five piece band with a take no prisoners attitude and the outstanding sax of AC Reed. Close on the heels of those recordings is "Cold Snap". "Cold Snap" is Collins seventh Alligator release and the twelfth of his career. The disc features horns aplenty, a little funk guitar courtesy of Mel Brown and the famed organ of jazzier Jimmy McGriff. While the disc may bring to mind more James Brown than T-Bone Walker or Clarence Brown, there is no mistaking Collins' explosive guitar sound. If there is a downside to this disc it's probably "I Ain't Drunk" which may have sounded good in its day but is hardly worth listening to today. Bright spots include "Hooked On You" and the slow burner "Too Many Dirty Dishes". Overall, Collins' third best studio release. May 23, 2002

Collins wails

This is the first album that I have heard by Albert Collins, but I will definitely be getting more. Albert makes his Fender Telecaster scream, cry, and shout, playing it as if it were an extension of his own body. If you like your blues upbeat and ferocious, this album is for you. Also check out Showdown with Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland. April 27, 2000

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