From Blues Review Magazine
"I Know A Little...LIVE"
An album by Steve Gaines, who went down
with Lynyrd Skynyrd in the plane crash, proves to be of surprising interest to blues
lovers. Gaines demonstrates a clean inventiveness on his Stratocaster at length on I
Know a Little...Live, but never overplays. Besides the title song and Dixie-fried
rockers like "Alone in the Multitude," Live revs up Dylan's 12-bar mindblower
"Leopard-Skin Pill-box Hat" and includes a laid-back, uncannily accurate take on
Freddie King's "Lonesome Cannonball Blues." The impassioned reading of
Curtis Mayfield's "It's Alright" shows just how good a singer Gaines was.
Rough source quality is the sole weakness. |
From Blues Review Magazine
"Okie Special"
"He was young and
becoming a guitar giant in 1977 when the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash ended his life. Steve
Gaines defined Southern-fried guitar with his poppinı Strat riffs and jazzy soul licks. Okie
Special (self-release) has a dozen live cuts culled from 1970-77 gigs by Crawdad and
Detroit, his two early bands. Itıs indispensable guitar history, and a good release from
the Gaines family (who also lost sister Cassie Gaines that night). Probably hard to find,
but stunning."
‹ Ed Ivey, Blues Revue
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