Blues Traveler: What You and I Have Been Through

By GRAHAM REID

(Herald rating: * * )

BT are one of those journeymen US rock bands we just don't get down this way, largely because they are fundamentally a live band - which explains this, their second live album in the past six years.

With the set weighing heavily on their last somewhat disappointing album Bridge plus a few oldies added (although not their big US hits Runaround and Hook) this has the feel of a career stopgap.

The opener is a harmonica treatment of Star Spangled Banner in the manner of Hendrix's famous deconstruction, there's plenty of guitar pyrotechnics throughout which suggest you might have to have been there, and on the closer, the rambling and aimless The Path we are asked, "Party people, how you feelin' tonight?" Well, bored mostly since you ask.

BT carry the flag for wordy and ambitious 70s funk-rock but the thing is starting to look a bit tatty. Some self-analysis might be in order.

Label: Shock