Incredible funky guitar! This is one of the hardest Little Beaver records to find, and it's an all-instrumental record that focuses on Beaver's incredible guitar talent! The sound is amazing -- with lots of snakey compressed guitar parts, nice wah wah moments, and a dope laidback groove that's similar to Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information album, but a little funkier. Especially sweet are the sudden changes within the tunes -- which find a killer groove, take a left turn or two, and then fall back into original line.

Willie wrote most of the cuts, and the track list includes "Hit Me With Funky Music", "Loosen Up", and "Tribute To Wes". But some of his best playing comes out on the covers, which have a nice laidback feel, in the best dope Little Beaver style -- like "Never Can Say Goodbye", "Let's Stay Together", and "Summertime". Total perfection!

Little Beaver (aka Willie Hale) is a funk guitarist

Working with Betty Wright and Timmy Thomas

All instrumental LP

Beaver pays tribute to his influences Wes Montgomery, Al Green, BB King

TRACKLIST

A TRIBUTE TO WES

(W. Hale)

BLUES FOR MAMA

(W. Hale)

HIT ME WITH FUNKY MUSIC

(W. Hale)

LOOSEN UP

(W. Hale)

SUMMERTIME

(Heywood & Gershwin)

JUST MY IMAGINATION

(B. Strong - N. Whitfield)

NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE

(Clifton Davis)

LET'S STAY TOGETHER

(A. Jackson - W. Mitchell - A. Green)