TAYLOR, MICK
Radisson Hotel Plaza Club, Karlstad Dec.9th, 2005


TRACK LIST:

Disc 1:
1. Cry For Me
2. Stop Breaking Down
3. Fed Up With The Blues
4. Losing My Faith
5. Have You Ever Loved A Woman
6. You Gotta Move

DISC 2
1. Ventilator Blues
2. Little Red Rooster
3. Taking Care Of Business
4. Hip Shake
5. Can�t You Hear Me Knocking?,
6. No Expectations

REVIEW:

Mick Taylor is certainly one of the last great British Blues guitarists but he has managed to mess up his own career several times, even after having left the Stones in 74. After his first solo album and the short lived Jack Bruce Band, he toured with Alvin Lee, rejoined Mayall�s Bluesbreakers in '82 and '83, backed Bob Dylan in 1984 and then toured extensively with his own 4 piece band. And after the release of the LP, A Stone Alone, he basically stopped touring in 2003 - showing up only on rare occasion to play in the studio or live with the likes of Hans van Lier, Todd Sharpville, Andy Sharrocks, Peter Karp etc. Mayall�s return to the Bluesbreakers project being the latest project Taylor has been associated with.

The Wentus Blues Band is a Finnish outfit that plays a steady rhythmic blues with gusto and style. The recording here presents a concert taped in late 2005 in a Swedish club where Taylor plays many 70s Stones songs (3 from Exile and 2 from Sticky Fingers) plus �Little Red Rooster� and �No Expectations� from Beggar's Banquet. Taylor sings too on �You Gotta Move� and �Can�t You Hear Me Knocking?� also offering his guitar vibrato style on classics like �Have You Ever Loved A Woman� or �Taking Care Of Business�. His thick guitar solos can be heard throughout the concert with the Wentus Band offering discreet but solid back up, supplemented with great piano playing, it's an enjoyable evening for sure. The second part of CD 2 is devoted to the 2001 Dutch Radio 192 broadcast of Taylor in their studio playing accoustic guitar with Erwin Nyhoff on some other Stones classics including strumming of the rarely heard �Sister Morphine� and �Time Waits For No One�, the broadcast ending with an interview by Peter Schavemaker.