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Peter Green - Green and Guitar: The Best of Peter Green 1977-1981 (1981)

Track listing:
  1. In the Skies 3:50
  2. Loser Two Times 4:32
  3. Cryin' Won't Bring You Back 5:08
  4. Last Train to San Antone 5:31
  5. Apostle 3:14
  6. Little Dreamer 7:04
  7. The Clown 6:04
  8. Gotta See Her Tonight 5:47
  9. White Sky (Love That Evil Woman) 8:51
  10. Carry My Love 5:01
  11. Slabo Day 5:09
  12. A Fool No More 7:46
  13. Baby When the Sun Goes Down 5:37
  14. Funky Jam 6:20

Notes

This is a reasonably comprehensive collection, 78 minutes of music at mid-price, drawn from In the Skies, Little Dreamer, Blue Guitar, White Sky and Legend, the first two albums having most of the best material here. Green's guitar playing is as impressive as ever, and his singing is nothing to ignore, a sweet, gently soulful rasp that recalls his one-time rival Eric Clapton at his best behind the microphone. There's just a bit of fall-off in quality between tracks like "Apostle" and "Little Dreamer," and later stuff like "Last Train from San Antone" when they're heard side by side. And a lot of this doesn't seem as strong today as it did in the late 1970s, when Green was one of the last exponents of British blues still working in that genre and getting heard. But the sound is good, and the price is right.