Music
September, 2000
BluesChris Whitley moans, growls, breaks into falsetto, howls, declaims and screams with such conviction that he could make the telephone directory sound deep. He can even do a song about a model that isn't stupid or clichéd. And he plays bottleneck slide guitar like Johnny Winter. There aren't a lot of other elements to Live at Martyrs' (Messenger), Whitley's fifth album. It's one guy with a guitar playing 15 songs in front of an enthusiastic audience at a Chicago club. There are no backup musi...
