Vargas Blues Band have a strong release history, founded by Javier Vargas in 1991, they have released nearly 20 albums. Javier Vargas, who's recorded and performed with some of the world's heavy rock and blues hitters such as Santana, Double Trouble, Jack Bruce, Devon Allman, Larry Graham, Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert, Junior Wells, Glen HughesVargas Blues Band have a strong release history, founded by Javier Vargas in 1991, they have released nearly 20 albums. Javier Vargas, who's recorded and performed with some of the world's heavy rock and blues hitters such as Santana, Double Trouble, Jack Bruce, Devon Allman, Larry Graham, Carmine Appice, Tim Bogert, Junior Wells, Glen Hughes and Chris Rea to name a few, is still expanding his Blues and Rock collaborations, as this latest release features Carmine Appice, Paul Shortino and Bobby Alexander. The album is actually quite good, if not a little throw away, the songs are well written, nicely arranged, with a good blues lead featuring strongly in the mix, but overall it does lack a punch. I didn't once find myself looking at the sleeve to discover the song title, thinking "I will put that on again, later". If you're going to cover a song as timeless as The Everley Brothers 'Love Hurts', you had better try and beat what I consider to be the best cover version ever of this song, the one by Nazareth. Unfortunately this falls way short, offering nothing new and at time's dragging, a disappointing effort with only the vocals saving it. The [...]
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