Leslie West One More Drink For The Road (ft. Steve

Leslie West Unusual Suspects (2011) Leslie West isn t a particularly innovative guitarist, and his style and approach have barely )moved an eyelash since he first broke into the public consciousness with Mountain back in the early 70s, but he gets a tone heavier than plutonium on his Les Paul, and when he sings, it s a gearshredding roar that would make John Kay proud. All of this is still very much in evidence on his newest album, Unusual Suspects, which finds him squaring off with several guest guitarists, including Billy Gibbons, Slash, Zakk Wylde, Joe Bonamassa, and Steve Lukather. Naturally, there are guitar lines aplenty here, which is what one expects from a Leslie West outing, but this set also has the autumnlike feel of summation, with West looking back on years of gigs and guitar slinging in autobiographical songs like To the Moon and My Gravity, both West originals (Jon Tiven was a cowriter on My Gravity ), and a moving cover of Willie Nelson