SKY HIGH : Freedom
Label : Grooveyard Records (GYR007)
Year : 2002
CD mint sealed / CD neuf scellé
1. Back To The Start
2. Boogie For Peace
3. Freedom
4. Jimi
5. Sisters And Brothers
6. Bluestown
7. Blues For The Green
8. I'm Still Rockin'
9. Go On Home
10. I Ain't Beggin'
11. You Can't Break Me
12. Evil Eye
13. Money Blues
14. I Want You
15. All Along The Watchtower
16. Restless Love
Freedom, the 12th album from SKY HIGH, featuring "critically acclaimed"
Swedish blues/rock guitar legend Clas Yngstrom, is a heavy guitar
revelation which includes 16 killer trax (69 minutes) of outstanding,
blistering-hot, intense powerful blues/rock riffage of the highest
order.
On Freedom (their first disc for GROOVEYARD RECORDS, a new label
dedicated to TOTAL GUITAR), SKY HIGH went into a studio in the backwoods
of Sweden earlier this year and laid down the blues/rock law. Going
back to their heavy power trio roots and keeping true to the format,
Clas Yngstrom & Sky High recorded Freedom "live" in the studio and
got down to some serious blues/rock business. This is the way REAL
blues/rock music is meant to be played...RAW, LOUD & HARD or, as we
like to refer to it @ the grooveyard, "RAW BLUES POWER!!!" On the
Freedom sessions, Clas & Co. dig deep into their best & heaviest
material, complete with several kool surprises including a "bad-ass"
version of "Freedom" by Hendrix. The end result features some of the
most incredible, fierce, over-the-top, awesome beyond all reason HEAVY
GUITAR THREE PIECE KICK ASS CYCODELIC BLOOZE ROCK you have ever heard.
Sky High has been together in one form or another kicking blues/rock ass
for over two decades (23 years to be exact), played on over 25 t.v.
shows, had two top 10 singles and have gigged extensively around the
world with over 3000 gigs under their belts including tours of India,
Ecuador, Japan, and playing in front of 300,000 people at the "Glasnost
'88 Rock Fest." They have also had their music featured in the film "The
American Way" starring Dennis Hopper and have even "jammed" with Z.Z.
TOP (according to the blues/rock gospel, Billy Gibbons aka Rev. Willy G.
preaches that Clas Yngstrom is a guitar GOD!!!
Although relatively unknown in the States, Clas Yngstrom is well known
in certain circles throughout the rest of the world and, for people not
familar with Sky High, Freedom is the perfect place to start. For those
of you who are familiar with Clas Yngstrom, this is the SKY HIGH album
you have been waiting for brother Clas to get down on. On the Freedom
disc he takes his guitar rite over the edge and he never looks back.
Clas Yngstrom is without a doubt one of the best get-down hendrixy heavy
guitar axeslingers we have ever heard and he waves his blues/rock heavy
guitar freak flag HIGH on Freedom.
The SKY HIGH - Freedom disc is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to fans of JIMI
HENDRIX, STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN, ROBIN TROWER, FRANK MARINO, ERIC GALES,
GARY MOORE, JOE BONAMASSA, ERIC CLAPTON with CREAM, vintage, classic
Z.Z. TOP and just about any other killer get-down rippin' blues/rock
axemaster you have ever heard. Clas Yngstrom is definitely rite up there
with the BEST of them and he deserves all the credit he can get.
As an added bonus, Swedish guitar virtuoso Thomas Larsson guests on
"Bluestown" & "I ain't beggin'" where the two swedish axemasters rip
and tear it up on these two killer trax.
Serious blues/rock fans take note: if you dig your blues hard and heavy
with an emphasis on the guitar, then Sky High is the band for you and
Freedom will hit you where it counts and blow you away completely.
KEEP ON PUSHIN', KEEP ON STRAIGHT AHEAD & BOOGIE FOR PEACE!