Tony McPhee & Friends – I Asked For Water, She Gave Me…Gasoline (1969)
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I Asked for Water, She Gave Me…Gasoline is the second album of (mostly) acoustic blues stylings from Tony McPhee and some talented friends — including Jo-Ann Kelly, Andy Fernbach, Graham Hines and Brett Marvin –, but it’s not quite a repeat of the prior album (Me and The Devil). The playing is more incisive and the boldness is ratcheted up at least half a notch, vocally as well as instrumentally. The overall effect, at times, is one of the “blackest”-sounding blues albums ever generated by white Englishmen (and Englishwomen), even if the presence of drums does present a slightly modernistic intrusion. This is distinctly a more late-’60s record at times, in sound and intent, than its predecessor, but that’s not a problem when you’re dealing with talent this prodigious, because it’s all honest and unaffected. Bruce Eder, Allmusic.
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