I Loved working on this album with Jimmy heres the NME review
It was an honour to be asked to play on James Litherland's Solo Album Back n Blue #blues #colluseum #leosayer #jamesblake
Mr Litherland was a founder member of sixties proggers Colosseum before going on to record with the likes of Long John Baldry, Bandit and the legend that is Sir Leo Sayer.
He’s put out a couple of solo albums over the years as well, and this one is his latest. And very enjoyable it is too. To be fair, don’t come here if you’re looking for the sturm and drang of “Those Who Are About to Die Salute You” but if you’ve got a penchant for the kind of light blues purveyed by mid seventies Eric Clapton and mid eighties Chris Rea then this is a good place to be.
It’s the latter that is the real template for what’s going on with some heartfelt vocals and some delicious slide guitar. Tunes like ‘Miss You Blues’ will keep the, um, blues fans happy while ‘Unconditional Love’ has Radio 2 playlist written all over it. Granted, it made me weep like a bairn but that’s where I am right now. He’s brought in some exceptional supporting musicians to flesh things out where needed and old metal heads like me will be delighted to hear the drums of Mr Les Binks and Bassist Paul Francis .
There is a verve and vigour on songs like ‘At Least I Didn’t Bore You’ and ‘Pink Corvette’ that is quite enlivening and, look, I got all this way without mentioning his son or his Ivor Novello Award. Damn
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