Music Review

Din of Ecstasy

Chris Whitley
Reviewed by Josef Woodard | Mar 10, 1995
EW's GRADE
A-

Details Lead Performance: Chris Whitley; Genre: Blues

On his sophomore outing, the once acoustic-minded Whitley creates a darkly ecstatic blues-rock canvas. With his white-blues grit and limber vocal expression, Whitley sings over tough electric guitar lines and clenched chords. A haunting, '90s-retrofitted variation on the Cream/Hendrix/Led Zep models, Din of Ecstasy (Work/Columbia) is a fine din, indeed. A-

Originally posted Mar 10, 1995 Published in issue #265 Mar 10, 1995 Order article reprints
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