SNOWY WHITE - Unfinished Business
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Renowned for his work with THIN LIZZY and PINK FLOYD, SNOWY WHITE is set to release his solo album "Unfinished Business" on June 14, 2024. Experience the bluesy brilliance of the first advance single, "Evening Blues", here.
Snowy White: "I still pick up the guitar most days and have a play on it, even if only for a couple of minutes. Occasionally an idea comes, and I decide to record it so that I don’t forget it. Later on I get another idea, and record that too, then maybe try a couple of things, maybe add a bass line or a few extra chords…. and there it is, the start of a new album. Suddenly I find that I’m in deep and months later I have a finished collection. Of course, it never really ends because there’s always another idea coming… so, it’s ‘Unfinished Business’ every time."
Unfinished Business is another fine mix of songs and instrumentals from Snowy White. The title track makes an excellent opener, whilst Alone With Me gives you plenty of food for thought. Amongst the nine well-crafted tracks the standout is Endless Green, Deepest Blue. With its tasteful range of lead guitar sounds and perfectly placed phrases it's what most people will be looking for in a Snowy White album. The mood is sombre on this song, and the lyrics of the final verse perfectly describes our present-day situation: "We have destroyed this land, with our endless wars and our words of hate, God knows we will deserve our fate, that's why my heart is crying". A Snowy White classic.
CD-Tracklisting:
1. Unfinished Business
2. Evening Blues
3. Alone With Me
4. Overland And See
5. Long Time
6. Endless Green, Deepest Blue
7. White Cloud
8. Sweet Little Secret
9. All The Way Home
Snowy White is one of a handful of classic blues-orientated British electric guitar players - musicians whose sound, technique and style has echoed the originality of the blues with the excitement of contemporary rock. He has developed his own style of ‘English’ blues, a combination of clear, clean blues phrases and harder-edged riffs that are a recognisable feature of his very personal songs.
In the seventies he toured the east coast of America, getting as far south as New Orleans and discovering that he thoroughly enjoyed being ‘on the road’. He had by then become friendly with the now legendary English blues guitarist Peter Green and they spent a lot of time jamming together. In the Autumn of 1976 he was invited to tour America and Europe with Pink Floyd as their first augmenting musician, a gig which took up most of his time throughout 1977. In 1978, the band’s keyboard player Rick Wright asked him to play guitar on his solo album, entitled ‘Wet Dream’, which he recorded in the South of France.
In 1979, Peter Green decided to head for the studio once more and invited Snowy and his band along to jam. The result was the album entitled ‘In the Skies’, now something of a collector’s item.
He was then asked by Pink Floyd to go to America to rehearse their new show entitled ‘The Wall’, and, at the same time, the rock band Thin Lizzy invited him to become a full-time member. So after the completion of the Floyds’ US dates he returned to England and went straight into the studio to record his first Thin Lizzy album ‘Chinatown’. Snowy stayed with the band for nearly three years of touring, recording ‘Renegade’ with them in 1982, before leaving to pursue his solo career.
Snowy’s first solo album was entitled ‘White Flames’. This album included the timeless ‘Bird of Paradise’, written by Snowy, which became a hit single around the world. In 1987, he put together a blues-orientated outfit, the Blues Agency, recording two albums, ‘Change My Life’ and ‘Open For Business’.
Between 1993 and 2000, he toured and recorded with two brilliant Dutch-Indonesian musicians, Juan van Emmerloot (drums/percussion) and Walter Latupeirissa (bass and rhythm guitar). As The White Flames they recorded a string of albums, including ‘No Faith Required’, ‘Restless’, ‘The Way It Is’ and ‘Realistic’, and performed all over Europe. In later times the band was augmented by Max Middleton on keyboards.
Every year from 1999 to 2014 Snowy toured the world with Roger Waters, including the ‘The Dark Side Of The Moon’ and massive ‘The Wall’ tour. In between tours, he founded the Snowy White Blues Project, recording the albums ‘In Our Time Of Living’ and ‘In Our Time…Live’.
