I've still got Albatross playing in my head from last night's gig at The Basement in Sydney. This was an amazing performance by a man with a very checkered past but a quite unique guitar talent - #38 in Rolling Stone Magazine's 100 greatest guitar legends list in fact.
Albatross is about 1:50 in on this clip:
The Basement is a very cosey, intimate venue as well, which made the event that much more special, particularly considering his story - as Rolling Stone explains: "a long, drug-fueled breakdown that would include stints in mental institutions and on the street. Miraculously, Green recovered and took up guitar again in the mid-Nineties; though his leads aren't as authoritative now, the spirit of a true survivor is in every note. ".
Here's some more:
They finished with another of his greatest tunes: Santana's Black Magic Woman. Sheer genius.