Category: MICHAEL LANDAU

Guitarist extraordinaire MICHAEL LANDAU is one of the favorites of this blog. As LA Session player he has graced some of the greatest album from the 80s, 90s and beyond. Now with his own band, Landau has been released terrific material in recent time.
Appeared today, “Liquid Quartet Live” was recorded at the world-famous Baked Potato Club in Los Angeles last year with his Liquid Quartet line-up of drummer Abe Laboriel Jr (Steve Lukather, Eric Clapton), bassist Jimmy Johnson (Allan Holdsworth) and on guitar / vocals, David Frazee (Burning Water).
The set list features outings of some brand new songs (‘Well Let’s Just See,’ ‘Can’t Walk Away From It Now’) as well as some inspired renditions from his previous studio album ‘Rock Bottom’ and Renegade Creation, the band he formed with Robben Ford.
Awesome musicians, awesome stuff.

MICHAEL LANDAU is perhaps the most widely respected session guitarist of all time. He has recorded all styles of music and worked with ALL, from James Taylor to Steve Perry to John Wetton.As a leader of own projects his discography is admittedly light, but he’s ramped up recently with ‘Live’ (2006) from his main band, the rock/vocal driven ‘Renegade Creation’...

Now this is a special post on this blog: guitar master MICHAEL LANDAU is releasing a new solo album titled “Rock Bottom“. It’s not special ‘cos the music style is different from the usually featured here – its title speaks for itself, this is Rock music – but for the fact that Landau is one of our favorite guitar players...