Emotion & Commotion

Jeff Beck may be the most commercially under-appreciated guitarist of his generation. While his fellow guitarists in the Yardbirds, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, both reaped the rewards of FM radio and SRO arena tours, Beck has often played the sideman to great artists. Yet, there isn’t a guitarist alive who doesn’t appreciate Beck’s incredible tone, his immaculate sense of timing and his unpredictable solos that always add an adventurous drama to whatever he touches. 2003’s Jeff toyed with electronica, but 2010’s Emotion & Commotion shifts back towards the blues, jazz, rock and Beck’s own unpredictable brand of cover material. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You” and Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow” are the better known tunes given the Beck treatment. Joss Stone adds vocals to “Spell” and her co-write on “There’s No Other Me.” Producers Steve Lipson and Trevor Horn make this a BIG sounding album, but it all comes down to Beck’s impeccable guitar lyricism, as warm and exciting as it gets.