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Live at the Old Absinthe House Bar, Vol. 2: Saturday | 
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| Artist: Bryan Lee
Label: Justin Time Records
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 140726
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 111
UPC: 068944011124
EAN: 0068944011124
ASIN: B00000AEVW
Release Date: September 15, 1998
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| Tracks:
| • | Think - Bryan Lee, McCracklin, Jimmy | | • | I'll Play the Blues for You - Bryan Lee, Beach, Jerry | | • | I Got a Rich Man's Woman - Bryan Lee, Welch, L.J. | | • | How Many More Years - Bryan Lee, Howlin' Wolf | | • | Look on Yonder Wall - Bryan Lee, James, Elmore | | • | Dope Smokin' Blues - Bryan Lee, Lee, Bryan | | • | The Things That I Used to Do - Bryan Lee, Guitar Slim [Eddie | | • | Love Her with a Feeling - Bryan Lee, Fulson, Lowell | | • | I'm Ready - Bryan Lee, Dixon, Willie | | • | Flip Flop and Fly - Bryan Lee, Calhoun, Chuck |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Bryan Lee and Pals in Top Form August 6, 2007
Dennis G. Voss Jr. (Lexington, KY USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
A New Orleans native, I stopped in at the Old Absinthe Bar for a Sazerac while taking some out-of-town guests around the city. There was a blues band on the stage fronted by a heavy-set guy dressed all in white. His voice was pretty good, and we were into the music, but when Bryan Lee ripped into his first solo our jaws just dropped. Maybe we'd heard that kind of playing on a blues CD once or twice, but none of us ever imagined we could just walk into a bar off the street, buy our "one drink minimum," and hear someone wail like that. His companion musicians were superb as well. We sat, hardly talking to each other, until Mr. Lee left the stage for the last time.
You'll never hear exactly what we heard. The blues bar was gone long before Hurricane Katrina, another victim to the epidemic of mango-flavored daquiris. But this CD is about as close as you can expect from a live recording. Unlike the Friday Night recording, this one included two guest guitarists: Frank Marino (known for his work with Mahogany Rush) and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Their performances are excellent, but more important I think is that their presence brought out the absolute best in Mr. Lee's playing. Forced to choose between the two CD's, I'd go with this one first.
Slice of the blues May 14, 2007
Bruce L. McLaughlan (Michigan)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you only buy this as a protest against the loss of great old music haunts like the Old Absinthe House Bar in New Orleans, that's reason enough. The engaging, dynamic performance by the bar's longtime resident genius Bryan Lee is just a plus.
 Very nice live blues album August 28, 2005
R.J.N. (Illinois United States)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This was my introduction to Bryan Lee and I was not dissapointed. This is really a fine example of how good blues can sound live. There are some really nice guests that appear on this also, by the way the same lineup was also on the Friday night disc, this should really have come out as a double live album. James Cotton is on this and although he does not wail the same as he once did it is still James Cotton.
There is also a gust appearence by Frank Marino and Kenny Wayne Shepard. I have heard through a he said she said thing that KW was very rude to Marino at these 2 shows, it does not surprise me, he is known to be very arrogant. A kid whose father was in the music buisness and had a whole lot of breaks because of that, and really thinks he is hot stuff. He is a good guitar player , but without a doubt the 3rd best on these 2 discs behind Lee and Marino.
One thing I noticed outright was that Marino's guitar work seems to be turned way down, almost like Lee was trying to let his boy KW sound better than Frank, which is the only way he ever could, KW could not carry Marino's guitar strap if we let the truth be known.
But like I said both this one and the one on Friday are both well worth a listen.
 pretty good, but not 5-star good November 8, 2003
Btbp (Tokyo / New York / Singapore)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
When I found out (not from Amazon) that Frank Marino was on this album, plus KWS, I almost bought it sight unseen, but I gave the samples a listen and then decided to pick this and the Friday night (part I) up.I wasn't dissapointed, but my expectations we perhaps a little high, so it's not one of my top blues guitar albums, live or otherwise. It's a decent blues album and I like it, and although I'm no stranger to raw live blues, some of Lee's rawness comes off as, I'm sorry, but it's my opinion, sloppiness. Taken in context of a live recording in a New Orleans bar, this fits, but it's not 5-star material. Nor, IMHO is the companion album. But don't let that stop you from picking it up, it's/they're good album(s). Lee is a decent guitarist and singer, and it's really cool that he had Marino & Shepherd sit in with him. Makes you want to blast it loud while sipping a Jim Beam. To be really fair I need to check out other albums by Lee. If you're a very hard-core Marino fan like I am, you might a little dissapointed , Frank's a great player on his own and even better with Mahogany Rush, but like his "blues period" where he went from his own, post-Jimi/almost progressive self-styled fantastic sound period (IV, Strange Universe) to a more Johnny Winter vein, well, Frank's just not a blues guitarist *first*. He seems to be straining, not to play notes, but to garner feel. I can't believe I of all people am saying this about Frank! Frank does do some nice slide playing, although I'm not sure it's actually slide, I had heard that on earlier MR albums he used his whammy bar for slide-sounds, but that be yet another Marino urban legend. Some people are not so keen on KWS, but I have most of his albums and I like him a lot even if he's a SRV clone, at the end of the day he plays well and has good tunes. He sounds good here too. Don't kill me for this review, someone else yeh or nay it.
Johnny Blue April 26, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Bryan Lee's Live at the Old Absinthe Bar Saturday Night CD is without a doubt one of the best hard core live blues CD's around. Too bad not too many people have heard of him. He has a great band behind him and his guests are not too shabby either (Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Frank Marino). The Friday night CD is quite good also. If you love the blues, this CD is rather entertaining and should be in your collection. It is addicting to listen to since it is so good.
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