The Best of Billy Joe Green Winnipeg Free Press Review

Jeff Monk of The Winnipeg Free Press gave The Best of Billy Joe Green a great review, check it out below.

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BILLY JOE GREEN / The Best Of (Strongfront)

Billy Joe Green is one of those seemingly ageless Manitoba bluesmen that toil in relative obscurity but continue to please audiences as far and wide as their semi-reliable vehicles will take them. The Best Of BJG collects 10 hot tracks (and one newly-recorded bonus number) from three of Green�s albums dating as far back as 1997 and it�s a doozie of a set. Billy Joe has a startlingly raw guitar tone that he corrals into making some wonderfully hellacious sounds full of sustain and personality. The dynamics of a track like Soul Search with its careening Stratocaster howls and wild dive bombs can be compared to what Jeff Beck has been doing lately, and that�s a tall order for any guitarist.

By pushing these contemporary blues to their sonic limit and avoiding all the tired clichés, Billy Joe Green has created a boisterous body of work that needs to be heard. 4 stars out of 5. � Jeff Monk