Andy Aledort has been at the pinnacle of American guitardom for decades. , played with Double Trouble and the Band of Gypsys, co-written , jammed with a who’s who of six-string greats from Johnny Winter to Buddy Guy to Joe Perry, and taught half the world to play guitar as an instructor and journalist – as 's associate editor. He is now coming into his own as a solo artist, as evidenced by .
Aledort’s new album includes traces of all the people he’s played with and written about, from Jimi Hendrix, the Beatles and Frank Zappa to John Scofield, Eric Clapton and SRV. These and other influences are integrated into a personal style that reflects his deep immersion into the history of the and his own originality. It’s fitting that three of the songs came to Aledort in dreams, as they represent a seamless merger of so many musical ideas and traditions coming together in his subconscious mind and emerging fully hatched.
“When you wake up with a song already written, it makes songwriting much easier,” Aledort says with a laugh. “For , I dreamt I was jamming with Sam the Sham of the Pharaohs. “For , in the dream I was listening to a live album, and they were playing exactly what’s heard on the record.
I woke up and thought, ‘That’s not an Allman Brothers song!’ And the melody of was clear as a bell from the moment I woke up. seemed to be the perfect name for the album.” Albert King’s features Texas guitar great David Grissom.
“Unexpectedly, David walked.