“Cummings’ guitar work is sizzling.” – Billboard
There is no set timetable in the trajectory of watching great musicians develop. Some appear full-blown right from the start, and others can take a whole career to get to that elevated place. Albert Cummings arrived strong right at the beginning and has kept growing throughout endless tours and nine previous albums. His latest, 2022’s Ten, is the kind of recording that shows exactly why all the accolades and excitement have been deserved. It’s an irrevocable truth that the musician has made his full-on breakthrough.
For someone with the kind of background Albert Cummings has, that kind of confidence about his new music says it all. This is a singer and guitarist who has played with many of the greatest players of the modern era and received the kind of awards and recognition that few others do. Raised in Massachusetts and self-taught on the banjo, it was a 1987 concert by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble that opened Cummings to a new world of modern blues and inspired him to take up the guitar. It didn’t take long for him to find his way to the front of the pack.
From his first album in 2003, the burgeoning blues world of the 2000s opened its doors for Albert Cummings. He recorded several albums, and on 2012’s No Regrets the guitarist extended the boundaries outside the blues world to include country and rock influences like he hadn’t before. It was obvious that the musician did not want to limit himself in any way, and he saw a wider possibility for where his music could go. Ten is a full realization of that possibility.
Recommended for Fans of Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Ana Popovic and Tab Benoit.
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