Sweet Release (LP)
Reese Wynans
Amoeba Review
09/03/2020
Sweet Release is keyboard/organ legend Reese Wynans' first solo effort after a long career of playing with everyone from Boz Scaggs to Joe Bonamassa to Duane Allman, not to mention Double Trouble with Steve Ray Vaughan. Unsurprisingly, the album features many high-profile guest turns, such as Sam Moore, who sings on the firey blues single “Crossfire,” to which Kenny Wayne Shepherd also lends his guitar chops. But overall, it is Wynans' versatility and restraint that gives the album its charm and spirit. This is perhaps most apparent on his closing piano version of Paul McCartney's “Blackbird.”