Classic Rock

ROUND-UP: BLUES

Philip Sayce

The Wolves Are Coming ATOMIC GEMINI/FORTY BELOW

With every bluesrock guitarist since 1969 squeezing the same 12 musical notes for juice, it’s undeniably harder to mint an original riff now than when Jimmy Page wrote Whole Lotta Love.

Somehow, on his ninth album Philip(inspired by a drinkspiking incident at an LA party), and are hardly rocket science, but hit the ear afresh, helped by the guitarist’s signature trick of doubling his licks with his faintly Kravitzian vocals.

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