It's sometimes such a thing ..

Gary Moore sees himself clearly as a blues guitarist who has just a while and done other stuff (Still Got The Blues ..) ..

What you get then to hear on this CD, but sounds more like a rock guitarist who probieren..oder some blues numbers say it calmly: want to let off steam!

Because I like both rock and blues, I have thus less of an issue, and the CD like about me and of itself quite well.
However bothers me when Gary Moore sometimes his tendency to play too fast runs with the songs including his rhythm section really overboard (in English with "to overplay" aptly called).

In particular the duets with Albert King and Albert Collins are both rather unflattering for Gary Moore: First, because it - not surprisingly - play the better blues, and secondly (and especially!), Because it just sounds as if Gary Moore but now would like to show it really them with his lightning-fast, almost metal-like runs.

Unquestionably Gary Moore is a gifted guitarist, what is impressive to hear about in "As the Years Go Passing by".
But the Blues are yet other things as in the rock, and such umsatteln how Moore is initiated with this CD, is for someone like not even just to create it so.

Particularly instructive is in such questions Sometimes the direct comparison, and here it falls approximately opposite Peter Green ("Stop messin` round") or Eric Clapton or Otis Rush ("All Your Love") again is not very flattering.
Moores versions act in a direct comparison but badly polished and smooth.

But again: I personally do not mind, because the adaptation much played pieces in its own right is part of the story and for me also to the fascination of the Blues.
I have at home even an entire CD with cover versions of "Rock Me Baby" by BB King on the Doors and Tina Turner to Acdc and the Stones.
But only at the edge. ;)

The conclusion is:
For Blue purists probably hardly worth hearing - if you like rock, will come more at his own expense.