Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band - Dirty Pool - Pure Pleasure LP

180g High Quality Pressing! Remastered By Cicely Baston At Alchemy/Air Mastering In London! "Electric blues guitarist Melvin Taylor had been sporadically recording solo albums for 20 years when Dirty Pool arrived - and was somehow just beginning to find fame. Already a hit in Europe, it had taken a steady run of performing in Chicago's famed blues clubs to slowly earn Taylor a well-deserved reputation as an equal talent among the giants before him, such as Otis Rush, Albert King and Stevie Ray Vaughan. While early records like Melvin Taylor Plays the Blues For You show off an equally amazing jazz side, Taylor traded away his Wes Montgomery-inspired runs for more Luther Allison/Jimi Hendrix attacks with the formation of the trio Melvin Taylor and the Slack Band in the mid '90s. The title song of the second album by that outfit, 'Dirty Pool,' is actually more the balls-to-the-wall, no-compromise, hard-rockin' electric Texas blues of Vaughan and Johnny Winter than the sweet Chicago soul