Colin James by Colin James (CD, Aug-1989, Virgin)

Album Features
UPC:	077778606222
Artist:	Colin James
Format:	CD
Release Year:	1989
Record Label:	Virgin
Genre:	Blues, Contemporary Blues

Track Listing
1. Five Long Years
2. Voodoo Thing
3. Down in the Bottom
4. Chicks 'N Cars (And the Third World War)
5. Why'd You Lie
6. Hidden Charms
7. Bad Girl
8. Lone Wolf
9. Dream of Satin
10. Three Sheets to the Wind

Details
Playing Time:	41 min.
Contributing Artists:	Betty Wright, Bill Payne
Distributor:	EMI Music Distribution
Recording Type:	Studio
Recording Mode:	Stereo
SPAR Code:	n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Colin James (vocals, guitar); David Burgin (harmonica); Johnny Ferreira (saxophone); Bill Payne (piano); Rick Hopkins (Hammond organ, piano, keyboards); Steve Croes (keyboards); Dennis Marcenko (bass); Darrell Mayes (drums, percussion); Billy Cowsill, Betty Wright (background vocals).Producers: Danny Kortchmar, Bob Rock, Tom Dowd.Engineers: Mike Fraser, Shep Lonsdale, Simon Pressey.Recorded at Little Mountain Studio, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; The Complex, Los Angeles, California; Criteria Sound, Miami, Florida.Although it's a little short on originality -- at times you could swear Stevie Ray Vaughan showed him exactly what to play -- Colin James' eponymous debut is an impressive collection of high-octane blues-rock that, at its best, explodes with the intensity of a keg of dynamite. James' forté is his speedy, accomplished guitar playing, which is breathtaking at times, and that's enough to excuse the occasionally awkward originals and predictable covers that pepper the album.. After all, good guitarists -- even ones that borrow heavily from old masters -- aren't all that easy to find, and sometimes you have to accept their flaws in order to embrace them. ~ Thom Owens