Best known for "The Year of the Cat" from the late 70's, Al Stewart came to town for the first time in many years. He has a very large catalog of material going back to the late 60's. Little known fact is that Jimmy Page was on some of his early recordings. So was Rick Wakeman who was the keyboard player in Yes.
Tonight's show was an acoustic trio with a focus on four from Year of the Cat LP. Al still sounds great and his guitar player was amazing. He told some very funny stories including how he missed signing autographs on body parts, back 30 years ago. But the best story was when he was 13 and got to see Duane Eddy in concert. Duane was an amazing guitar player who brought over an amp that was the size of a refrigerator. The likes of which had never been seen before in the UK. Once he started playing Al leaned over to his mother and said, "This is what I want to do when I grow up."
"Year of the Cat" still sounds great after all these years. I'm looking forward to seeing him when he comes back again.
Tonight's show was an acoustic trio with a focus on four from Year of the Cat LP. Al still sounds great and his guitar player was amazing. He told some very funny stories including how he missed signing autographs on body parts, back 30 years ago. But the best story was when he was 13 and got to see Duane Eddy in concert. Duane was an amazing guitar player who brought over an amp that was the size of a refrigerator. The likes of which had never been seen before in the UK. Once he started playing Al leaned over to his mother and said, "This is what I want to do when I grow up."
"Year of the Cat" still sounds great after all these years. I'm looking forward to seeing him when he comes back again.
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Al Stewart at Dakota Jazz Club, Minneapolis (06/13/11) |
