★★★★★
Blues music comes in many forms, from folk blues to jazz blues, and often in the form of rock blues; listen to early rock from the Rolling Stones to The Yardbirds to Led Zeppelin: if you can't 'play the blues' you don't know rock (a liberal paraphrase of a Keith Richards comment). Also, blues music, nearly by definition, is defined by life experience, tragedy or otherwise...
- www.dangerdog.com
2011-12-01
★★★★★
I have had this for the last few weeks and it became a wrench to bring it out of my car to do the review ? it hasn't been out of the stereo since I got it. Gales has been around for a few years, he released his first album in around '91 as a 16 year old, and he has played for and with some huge names. He has been namecjhecked by Carlos Santana, B.B. King, Eric Clapton and no less than Keef Richards has him down as one of his favourite guitarists...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
He's funky, he's streetwise, and comparisons to Jimi Hendrix are inevitable. At the ripe-old age of 25, Eric Gales, the acclaimed young guitarist, is back for his third installment, That's What I Am. An eclectic roster of guest artists join Gales for this go-round. Kenny Olson (guitar) of Kid Rock fame, Michael De Lorenzo (yes, the actor from TV's New York Undercover), and DJ Kilmore and Michael Einziger (guitar) of Incubus all lend their stylings to some tracks on That's What I Am...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
It is no coincidence that Eric Gales is listed as providing "guitar and vocals" rather than "vocals and guitar" in the credits of The Story of My Life. While Gales is a competent singer, he is an excellent guitarist; what one hears on The Story of My Life and previous Gales releases is really singing in service of guitar playing rather than guitar playing in service of singing...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27