Hawaiian-born ukulele player Jake Shimabukuro’s radical version of was an early YouTube viral video back in 2006, leading to a varied career that has eventually alighted on a blues album for which he's got together with his friend . Shimabukuro has taken a broad definition of the blues that includes and as well as more traditional material like and , and he’s adept at bringing out the melodic aspects of the songs with his distinctive strum and twang. Drummer Fleetwood also enjoys going back to his roots, not least on which harks back to his very early Mac days with , and , over which he delivers a spoken tribute to its writer .
They are the only vocals on an otherwise instrumental album. Hugh Fielder has been writing about music for 47 years. Actually 58 if you include the essay he wrote about the Rolling Stones in exchange for taking time off school to see them at the Ipswich Gaumont in 1964.
He was news editor of magazine from 1975 to 1992 and editor of Tower Records magazine from 1992 to 2001. Since then he has been freelance. He has interviewed the great, the good and the not so good and written books about some of them.
His favourite possession is a piece of columnar basalt he brought back from Iceland. "Flawless and unflinching classic rock for a cruel modern world": Jerry Cantrell goes back to black for I Want Blood "Wind-in-the-hair heavy metal thrust that keeps the pulses racing": Grand Magus serve up a chest-beating triumph on Sunraven "These performances retain.
