Larry Coryell: A Retrospective [Slow Blues]

Larry Coryell & David Hidalgo perform "Slow Blues".
This performance, taken from the Retrospective film, features David Hidalgo of Los Lobos as a guest guitarist.

Larry Coryell had been a fan of David's playing after hearing him play on a recorded blues type performance, and specifically asked for David to be a part of this show.

While preparing for this show at his home in Orlando, I had asked Coryell about the original recording of "Slow Blues", which can be heard on the release "Basics" from 1976 (a collection of outtakes from '68 and '69 sessions).

Coryell had mentioned the reason for recording Slow Blues back in 1969 was to show that although Hendrix, Page, and Clapton were playing electrified blues, this was something he could do as well. If you have the opportunity to hear this early recording of Slow Blues, you will find that not only could Coryell play a blues just as well, if not better than anybody, it his style at which he plays that sets him apart from the rest.

Although the early recording had no vocals, Coryell added vocals to this 2005 version with improvising lyrics on the spot. He had run this idea by me before heading to the stage, and we decided to step outside the box and try something a little different than the original tune.

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