Kelly Keeling is a great rock guitarist who has worked with a lot of great people over the years. This set features songs written by Keeling and performed by other artists. It’s an entertaining set with a lot of variety. This is quite a cool disc. I just wish there was more music here.

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The arrangement that serves as the backdrop for the first vocals is stripped down. The cut works out from there into a cool pop rock tune that’s accessible and tasteful.

Acoustic guitar opens things up here and builds in a folk rock kind of way. Then crunch guitar takes it into hard rocking territory. There is definitely a guitar hero (the old school guitar rocker type, not the video game) kind of vibe to this instrumental.

A little raw on the edges, this rocker is quite metallic and very cool.

Acoustic guitar serves as the backdrop for an alternative rock meets pop ballad approach.

Piano starts things off here and works out to a pretty melody. This is essentially a delicate and intricate piano solo with some other bits of instrumentation serving as icing on the cake here and there.

I think there is some jus harp on this. It powers in like a hard rocking, nearly metal tune, but then turns towards some killer fusion with world music and funk in the mix. This is pretty awesome. In fact, it’s arguably the best tune here. It is also another instrumental.