Snowy-White-Flames CD
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British born guitarist Snowy White (Born Terence Charles White) first
became interested in music at the age of eleven when he was inspired
by blues musicians Buddy Guy and B.B. King. He pursued his blues style
in a number of bands, however, during the seventies, Snowy made a
reputation for himself playing numerous sessions for a wide variety of
musicians such as Al Stewart, Cliff Richard and Peter Green. More
famously Snowy toured as second guitarist with Pink Floyd augmenting
the bands sound on the tours to promote The Animals and The Wall
albums. By late 1979 however, tiring of the session scene, Snowy
accepted the offer to join the rock band Thin Lizzy. Snowy recorded
two albums with Thin Lizzy (Chinatown and Renegade) and completed a
number of successful tours before deciding that the bands music and
more importantly their lifestyle wasn't to his taste.
He formed his own band featuring drummer Richard Bailey and bassist
Kuma Harada. With this band he recorded his first solo album entitled
White Flames. A single lifted from that album (Bird Of Paradise)
became a surprise hit reaching the British top ten in early 1983.
From here, Snowy White recorded a number of blues based albums all of
which were warmly received by the blues audience his records are aimed
at.
His latest album is a live album recorded in late 2006 in between
commitments with the Roger Waters Band with whom Snowy has been
touring for the last eighteen months.
Live Flames finds Snowy alongside The White Flames which features Juan
van Emmerloot on drums, Walter Latupeirissa on bass and long time
keyboardist Max Middleton.
Amongst the tracks which are mainly solely written or co-written by
Snowy White with members of the band is a cover of the Peter Green
song Long Grey Mare which was originally a featured song on the very
first Fleetwood Mac album in 1967. The band turn the song into a show
stopping performance here and it is a highlight of the album.